Hi Carl: Okay let's do some preliminary brainstorming on what is the "best practise" regarding the size of swap. Typically I would do it sufficiently large so that you can do a memory dump, but it gets a bit hairy if you have lots of RAM (like 32GB). Do you have any suggestions as to what logic we should go through to determine the best size?
Thanks for your additions to the sisuite.org Wiki, however that is being superceded by wiki.systemimager.org. Brian, is it possible to make the old wiki at sisuite.org read-only? Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Carl J Richell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 13:46 > To: Brian Elliott Finley > Cc: Bernard Li; SIS Devel > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] [systemimager-commits] > Manufacturing SetupWithMultiple Images > > This will be a great addition for us and I'm sure others. We may have > to rethink our 95% root partition. On a 250 GB drive it creates a 18% > Swap partition. Nonetheless, we'll get that figured out. > > BTW - my little contribution: http://wiki.sisuite.org/NetBootUbuntu > > Best Regards, Carl > > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:31 -0500, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: > > Ok. > > > > Go ahead and add it to the TODO, but put it in a new 3.9.x section. > > > > Cheers, -Brian > > > > > > Thus spake Bernard Li ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > >Actually I like the idea of being able to dynamically > allocate swap based on some best practices. Of course this > can be overwritten. > > > > > >Perhaps we should add this to the TODO list :-) > > > > > >Cheers, > > > > > >Bernard > > > > > >________________________________ > > > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on > behalf of Brian Elliott Finley > > >Sent: Mon 07/08/2006 14:16 > > >To: Carl J Richell > > >Cc: SIS Devel; SIS Users > > >Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] [systemimager-commits] > Manufacturing Setup WithMultiple Images > > > > > > > > > > > >Thus spake Carl J Richell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > >>Brian - > > >> > > >>This is precisely what I needed. We are now > pre-manufacturing with > > >>SystemImager. > > > > > >Excellent! > > > > > > > > >>The more I use the software the more I like - you guys > > >>have done great work. > > > > > >And thanks. > > > > > > > > >>I have two more questions. During pxe boot there is a 1 > minute pause at > > >>get_host_name_from_dns. We don't use that functionality > - can it be > > >>turned off? > > > > > >Yes. You have two simple options, either of which will work fine: > > > > > > * Have a hosts file (/etc/hosts style) in the > > > /var/lib/systemimager/scripts directory that has an > entry for each > > > host/ip combo that you'll be using. > > > > > > * Set HOSTNAME as a kernel append parameter in your > PXE boot config. > > > > > > > > >>For dynamic partitioning I have set the primary partition > / at 95% and > > >>the remaining amount for swap. This is adequate but is > there a way to > > >>determine the amount of memory in a machine and base the > swap off of > > >>that - then allocate the remaining space to the root partition? > > > > > >Not currently, but you can certainly hack the autoinstall > script if you > > >like. If you want to attempt this, consider making your changes to > > >/etc/systemimager/autoinstallscript.template, so that your > changes will > > >take effect every time a new autoinstall script is > generated, or an old > > >one is updated. > > > > > >Cheers, -Brian > > > > > >> > > >>Thanks again, Carl > > >> > > >>On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 21:24 -0500, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: > > >>> Carl, > > >>> > > >>> Images can be specified as kernel append parameters. > Consider a pxe > > >>> menu. See attached as a pxe menu example, and look for > local.cfg in the > > >>> documentation directory for a reference on all the SystemImager > > >>> variables you can pass to the autoinstall client as > kernel append > > >>> parameters. > > >>> > > >>> Let us know how it goes! > > >>> > > >>> Cheers, -Brian > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> Thus spake Carl Richell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > >>> >Hello and thank you in advance for your advice. > > >>> > > > >>> >I am setting up a SystemImager 3.7.3 server for the > imaging of our laptop and desktop line. We will have about > 10 different images. My current plan is something like this: > > >>> > > > >>> >SystemImager Server > > >>> > | > > >>> >PXE Boot Clients > > >>> > | > > >>> >Prompt to Choose Installation Image > > >>> > > > >>> >I'm stuck on prompting to choose installation image. > How can I accomplish this or is there a better way altogether? > > >>> > > > >>> >Cheers, > > >>> > > > >>> >Carl Richell > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > >------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > > >>> >Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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