Hello,

I am using SystemImager 3.0.1 to setup RedHat 9 on a number of
identical servers (all with an Intel SE7501WV2 IDE motherboard),
using PXE boot.

A few things don't work quite as they should:

- the generated .master shell script creates the swap partition with
id 0x83 instead of 0x82
Work-around: replace 'ext2' by 'linux-swap' in the corresponding 
parted mkpart line

- the systemconfigurator step toward the end of the imaging takes
way too long (several minutes), and issues many floppy drives errors:
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
etc.
df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems
etc.

These servers have no floppy drive and the floppy controller is
disabled in the BIOS. I could not find the perl script responsible 
for this probing. Any suggestion? Work-around?
I am using systemconfigurator-2.0.7-1

Also these servers have an Intel Service Partition in /dev/hda1
(a 40MB DOS/DOS-like partition with id 0x12).
The best (only?) way to keep it (in particular keep it bootable)
is to make a raw image of a /dev/hda1 and then copy it over the 
clone's /dev/hda1, with dd. If boel included dd, I could do it
automatically in the cloning shell script!

Thanks,
Bernard



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