[Sisuite-users] si_mkautoinstalldiskette Fails

[Youssef Eldakar]

On Debian Sarge, I added http://download.systemimager.org/debian to sources.list. I installed systemimager-server on the image server and systemimager-client on the golden client. On the golden client, I ran 'si_prepareclient -s ...', and then, on the image server, I ran 'si_getimage -g ... -im ... -ip dhcp'. All went all right, but running 'si_mkautoinstalldiskette' on the image server failed as shown below. The SystemImager and SystemConfigurator package versions are 3.6.2-2 and 2.0.10-1, respectively.

 

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ia00210:~# si_mkautoinstalldiskette -o autoinstall.bin
Here is a list of available flavors:

 

  ia.060530
  standard

 

Which flavor would you like to use? [standard]:
autoinstall.bin already exists, overwrite? (y/[n]): y
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 0.030653 seconds (48104813 bytes/sec)
Creating DOS filesystem in autoinstall.bin...
mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
Using "syslinux" to make floppy bootable...
Creating temporary mount point...
Mounting floppy...
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/root/autoinstall.bin
                          1424      1421         3 100% /tmp/.autoinstalldiskette.1318
Couldn't copy /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/kernel to /tmp/.autoinstalldiskette.1318!

ia00210:~# cp -a /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/kernel /tmp/.autoinstalldiskette.1318
ia00210:~# wc -c /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/kernel
1741831 /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/kernel

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Note how 'cp' returned no errors and the 'kernel' file size.

 

Youssef Eldakar

Bibliotheca Alexandrina