From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Allen Bierbaum
Sent: Tue 04/04/2006 20:04
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Sisuite-users] Ignore some partitions on destination (clone) machine
Is it possible to create an image that when installed skips over
some
drives on the cloned machine?
More detail...
I have been
using systemimager successfully with cluster's of machines
where I can
overwrite all data on all drives of the cluster nodes. But
recently I
needed to work with a cluster that has data that needs to
remain in place on
one of the drives on the nodes. This is because the
cluster will be
dual booting with WinXP on one drive and Linux on the
other. (yes, I
know I am asking for trouble but I really need to do it).
My setup
is:
- /dev/sda - WinXP (must not be overwritten)
- /dev/sdb - Linux
I want to use systemimager to manage the Linux drive
for all the nodes
and ignore WinXP.
At first I saw the new option (to
me anyway) of --exclude that can be
passed to si_prepareclient. It
seemed appropriate since the docs say
"Do not gather partition information
for DISK(s). The result of using
this option, is that DISK(s) will not
be partitioned during the
auto-install process.". Unfortunately what
this really means is ignore
the drives when making the image and then map the
drives from the golden
client to the clones based on disk order. For
example, when I used
--exclude /dev/sda on my system it did ignore the drive,
but then when
setting up the clone the contents (partitions, data, etc) from
the
golden client's /dev/sdb got installed onto the clones
/dev/sda.
Unfortunately I lost a windows drive learning this, but that
is part of
the fun of doing this type of thing right. :)
So I am
looking for other ideas. One idea I have yet to try is to
reorder the
drives in all the systems so sda is the Linux drive and sdb
is the WinXP
drive. Then I could probably use --exclude /dev/sdb to
ignore the
windows drive like I tried above but then when it maps the
drives for
installation it will still get the correct drive.
For right now I am just
manually editing the autoinstall scripts. Not a
great solution but it
may work for a while.
If anyone has another idea please let me
know.
Thanks,
Allen
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