>>Is there a tutorial that someone can point me to that
>>is better than the official documentation? I've been
>>trying to get systemimager to work for almost a month
>>now and its been one thing after another.
>
>i just went to the manual to add this documentation, but i
>noticed its already in the installation chapter. i dunno
>if you were looking at an up-to-date-enough version.
You updated the manual during some of our e-mail
exchanges. :)
I've reached an uneasy truce with systemimager. I've had to
hack the install scripts because parted does not work for
me. My server is an athlon system and the target machines
are pentium based. Some how...some way, it pulls athlon
libraries across the network. The pentium machines croak.
So what I've done is create a bootable parted disk which
runs the parted commands and then I use another disk to do
the systemimager install. The next problem I run into is
that systemimager does not setup grub on the boot
partition. To get around this I use the following patch:
### BEGIN systemconfigurator ###
-chroot /a/ systemconfigurator --configsi
--excludesto=/etc/systemimager/systemconfig.local.exclude
--stdin <<EOL || shellout
+chroot /a/ systemconfigurator --confighw --confignet
--excludesto=/etc/systemimager/systemconfig.local.exclude
--stdin <<EOL || shellout
[NETWORK]
HOSTNAME = $HOSTNAME
@@ -301,6 +303,16 @@
EOL
### END systemconfigurator ###
+echo "Writing grub to the boot sector"
+/a/sbin/grub --batch <<EOT 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+ root (hd0,0)
+ setup (hd0)
+ quit
+ EOT
+
Everytime I snapshot a system, I have to go make all the
hand edits to remove the parted commands, create a new
parted diskette, and do the above patch.
As for the manual, I think it could be more useful if it
were reorganized as follows:
*Documentation
1) no sample local.cfg. Book says its in /usr/share/doc.
Maybe the name in the book is wrong?
2) Subjects need better organization.
2.a)Chapter 2 should cover installation. For some reason
chapter 3 starts off by covering installation again,
even
though chapter 2 did this. Take the xtra words in
chapter 3 & put it in chapter 2.
2.b) Chapter 3 would be better if its outline were this:
3.0 Checking out your system after installation - go
over rsync, dhcp, tcp_wrappers, firewall, etc.
3.1 Creating a golden image
3.2 creating an autoinstall boot disk
3.3 creating an autoinstall cd-rom
3.4 setting up a Pxe based install
3.5 loading an image onto target machine - this goes
over the steps to get it going for all 3 ways.
3.6 updating a golden image
3.7 client side initiated update
3.8 server side initiated update
3.9 removing or renaming images
3.10 Building your own image - its in faq, but should
be in the main documentation
Chapter 3 should be step-by-step hand holding so that
people new to systemimager can see all the steps they are
supposed to do and in what order.
I outlined a lot of thoughts about systemimager in this
e-mail:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4469450
But we never got around to discussing it publicly.
Best Regards,
Steve Grubb
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