Hi Ole: > > I'll test this out and get back to you. > > Thanks a lot. Would this issue be specific to the particular IBM > hardware ? We don't have any problems at all with our other PC > nodes containing ATA disks, using older versions of SystemImager, > even when the /dev/hda disk already has a partition table.
Okay I have confirmed this with r3546 and it is indeed not working. However, when I reported that I was able to successfully image the IBM e326, I was using the code from trunk so it must have been working! I'm starting to wonder if this is specific to RHEL? Brian you must have tested si_prepareclient on Debian/Ubuntu right, have you not encountered this issue? > I guess I don't understand at all why "parted" has troubles in the > first place with the /dev/sda disk containing a partition table - > could this be a bug in parted ? The parted.c source code throws > this error when the function ped_device_is_busy() returns non-zero, > which I guess means that the disk is already mounted - but how > could that possibly come about ? We keep parted up to date quite regularly, but I'll take a look into this. > Maybe SystemImager should wipe hard disks by DBAN > (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) > prior to running parted :-) If I can't figure this out, this may be the solution... If you have any ideas, please let me know. Cheers, Bernard ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
