I recently upgraded to systemimager 3.2 from 3.0.
I have a number of questions I am trying to resolve.
1.) Can you run pushupdate from any machine, not just the image server?
If you don't define a login user, it should use root?
I read the man page on pushupdate and it still does not seem to like my
syntax for pushing out updates.
The minimum items I need to define are server, client and image,
correct?
2.) when upgrading from 3.0 to 3.2 I backed up my scripts directory, when I
ran mkautoinstallscripts it says I already have a script. Should I backup
the existing, then make new scripts then diff the difference?
My 3.0 scripts appear to be working correctly.
3.) Does 3.2 support the dell optiplex gx270 network card, which is I
believe the broadcom 5700 ?
4.) Has anyone else encountered problems where systemconfigurator detected a
dmfe network card as a tulip card? It will work, but runs really really
slow. I saw this on my dell optiplex 4300 machines.
5.) I successfully installed the system-imager kernel so I can boot off the
hard drive, I had problems where it was not detecting lilo, but I worked
that out.
I can currently boot off a cd, but I still require a floppy disk to
load local.cfg.
Back to my question, when I boot off the hard drive, it just stops,
and does not do anything, what do I define on the append so it will see
the local.cfg on my local disk, and look on the correct hard disk.
It appears load_local_cfg loads all the local.cfg settings, but I
can't seem to get it to work correctly when booting off the hard disk.
My current lilo.conf:
image=/boot/kernel.systemimager
password=somethingoranother
label=SystemImager
read-only
append="root=/dev/ram0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 vga=extended
ramdisk_blocksize=4096"
initrd=/boot/initrd.img.systemimager
I configured lilo.conf so it will only allow users to boot the
systemimager kernel, if they know the password. This prevents users from
getting full access to the machines in my computer lab.
It does make it so I can't run it as is remotely, but I can always
write a new lilo file remotely.
I assume that I define the LAST_ROOT via an append option on the
kernel boot per the documentation, but it does not appear to work, I
am doing something wrong.
I would like to load local.cfg from /dev/hda2 on these particular
machines. How can I set that via append options.
6.) I also modified some of my scripts so if the partition exists and is
mountable as an ext3 partition then it doesn't create the partition, it just
rsyncs the data. This makes it much faster on updating my images, as it
does not recreate the partition from scratch. Is this something that is
already done, or is not done currently done this way for a particular
reason?
File:Imagename.master
------------------
#see if partition 2 exists, by mounting it, if it does not exist then create
#it
#echo "mke2fs -j /dev/hda2 || shellout"
#mke2fs -j /dev/hda2 || shellout
echo "mkdir -p /a/ || shellout"
mkdir -p /a/ || shellout
#echo "mount /dev/hda2 /a/ -t ext3 -o defaults || shellout"
#echo "mount /dev/hda2 /a/ -t ext3 -o defaults || mke2fs -j /dev/hda2;
tune2fs -L / /dev/hda2 ;mount /dev/hda2 /a/ -t ext3 -o defaults"
#if [ `mount /dev/hda2 /a/ -t ext3 -o defaults` ]
#then
# echo "mounted"
#else
# echo "not mounted; making partition"
# mke2fs -j /dev/hda2
# tune2fs -L / /dev/hda2
# mount /dev/hda2 /a/ -t ext3 -o defaults
#fi
echo "MOUNTING
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
mount /dev/hda2 /a/ -t ext3 -o defaults || { echo "DIDNT MOUNT, MAKING
PARTITION"; mke2fs -j /dev/hda2; tune2fs -L / /dev/hda2; mount /dev/hd
a2 /a/ -t ext3 -o defaults; }
#mount /dev/hda2 /a/ -t ext3 -o defaults || mke2fs -j /dev/hda2; tune2fs -L
/ /dev/hda2 ;mount /dev/hda2 /a/ -t ext3 -o defaults
### END swap and filesystem creation commands ###
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7.) Is flamethrower a lot faster then non-flamethrower mode?
8.) Have you noticed a huge slowdown in using rsync over ssh?
9.) What additional authentication schemes do people use?
I just use iptables.
--Luke
Computer Science Sysad
Coe Security Sysad
Montana State University - Bozeman
Bozeman MT.
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