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Hi, I’ve gone through the process of cloning a machine
before with no problems but for some reason I can’t get it to work
again. Machine to be cloned/golden client, (Works as it should) Partitions: IDE1 starndard 80gig hardrive Hda1 linux – FILE SYSTEM TYPE: reiserfs Hda5 linux swap Distribution: Debian Sarge Boot loader: Grub v0.95 Kernel: 2.6.8-2-i386 Systemimager version 3.4.0 My cloning process, dhcp is set up on a internal network. On golden client: # prepareclient –server 192.168.1.6 On the image server: # si_getimage -golden-client 192.168.1.37 -image kioskv3.0
-updates-script YES # si_addclients -host node -domainname example.com
-host-range 1-10 -script kioskv3.0 -ip-range 192.168.1.201-192.168.1.210
2>/dev/null # si_addclients -host node -domainname example.com
-host-range 1-10 -script kioskv3.0 -ip-range 192.168.1.201-192.168.1.210 I then created a boot floppy for a new machine identical in
hardware on the golden client. I put in the boot floppy and the cloning process completes
successfully. But when I reboot the machine it stops at Loading DMI pool data… or something like that it
says Loaded the machine from live-cd and ran the following
commands Anyhow I tried to fix this by booting clone machine 1 from
knoppix live-cd [shell] [/shell] took out cd and rebooted. got passed the grub loader properly
this time and started loading can anyone spot anything I’m doing wrong here?
I cloned a machine using the above process which worked perfectly..
the only difference being it was a ext3 filesystem instead of reiserfs..
ideally I’d like to keep reiserfs if possible. I have 20 machines to clone.. and if I don’t sort
this soon I’ll have to install each one of them individually which will
take a long time since there is allot of special configuration. Can anyone shed any light on this? Anything at all even give me other suggestions how I might
do this. Thanks, Derek -- |
