On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:33:45PM -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> I think I have found out what is causing my current problems: the /dev
> directory on the "golden client copy" (on the server machine) has a
> completely empty /dev directory!

Is it supposed to be empty?  /dev is a pretty personal thing, to a
machine, wouldn't one want /dev recreated on each client, during the
autoinstall process?

OTOH, the /dev in my image isn't empty, so...  

hmm....

> So, copying that "golden image" to the client naturally also produces
> an empty /dev directory.  ;-)
> 
> Q: How can I get '/dev' on the golden client copied to the server?

Did you check to make sure there were no --exclude lines hiding
anywhere?  /etc/systemimager/updateclient-local.exclude comes to mind,
but that's for the client, not getimage.  Is there a similar file that
applies to getimage?

I know that the prepareclient creates a file /tmp/rsyncd.conf.xxxx that
it uses to run the rsyncd on the golden client that listens for getimage
from the golden server - if this conf file had an 'exclude /dev' line,
your image wouldn't have /dev.  Is this the case?

(btw, how does prepareclient generate /tmp/rsyncd.conf.xxx?  There's not
much docs about it in the manual...)

-ben


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