All the problems should be fixed in 3.7.4. The problem with parted should be resolved too, it's the same problem about the old syntax used by parted. Can you confirm that your parted version (parted --version) is < 1.6.23?
-Andrea Mark Seger wrote: > I hate to come across as a nag, but... > I just tried imaging a new system with RHEL4/Update4 on it (the update > was just released the other day). Anyhow, I grabbed an image and > decided to run si_prepareclient with the -no-uyok switch because I was > getting impatient - my vote would be to make that the default, but I'm > sure there was already a lot of discussion around that and so don't > really care all that much. > > Anyhow, prepage client went smoothly and when I retrieved the image, the > very last thing is did was: > > Press <Enter> to continue... > Couldn't open > /var/lib/systemimager/images/rhel4-U4-poker/etc/systemimager/boot/ARCH > for reading > No such file or directory at > /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Server.pm line 75. > > A little more digging shows there is no /etc/systemimager/boot directory > on the client. How can that be as I did install initd-templace as you > can see from this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep systemi > systemimager-i386initrd_template-3.7.4r3676_arighi-1 > systemimager-common-3.7.4r3676_arighi-1 > systemimager-client-3.7.4r3676_arighi-1 > > could it be that in previous installations that did work I simply had > that directory hanging around from past installs? I looked inside the > init-template rpm and there's nothing in there that install in > /etc/systemimager or ARCH. > > As a further suggestion, and I know this can be a pain, I think every > 'open' failure on an expected file should print a message something like > "are you should you installed rpm xyz?" just to let those not capable of > reading the code what might be wrong. > > but wait - I tried running prepareclient again without -no-myok and it > failed too! Finally dawned on me that I had installed the i386 > initrd-template instead of the x8664 one, but again a friendlier message > could help the less informed - though given my blunder I *am* one of the > less informed. > > So I installed the right template and ran prepareclient without -no-uyok > and this time I got a boot directory so all seems ok. Unfortunately I > now have to regrab the image - at least I think I do - but at least it > will only pull the few files that have changed. > > OK, now I'm getting warnings: > Are you satisfied? ([y]/n): > WARNING: LVM partition "/dev/sda2" is not assigned to any group! > WARNING: LVM group "VolGroup00" doesn't have partitions! > > and not being an LVM kind of a person, have no idea what these mean. > All I know is I have a valid, running system and here's what parted shows: > > (parted) print > Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-238475.179 megabytes > Disk label type: msdos > Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags > 1 0.031 101.975 primary ext3 boot > 2 101.975 238472.688 primary lvm > > -mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
