Mitch Sako wrote: > Is systemimager recursive? By that, I mean can a second generation golden > client generate an exact duplicate of itself? I'm finding some issues with > the partitioning that makes this challenging. In particular, my second > generation client had its swap partition setup last (instead of before /) > which caused it to be the free space hog on subsequent generations and my / > to be the fixed size it was on the original golden client. > > Additionally, I have / and /boot and the script tried to mount /boot before / > which caused the real /boot on /a/boot to be mounted over by / on /a just > prior to rsync. At reboot, the /a/boot was empty and the root failed. > > Hi Mitch,
I'm not sure I understand the question.. I think you should be able to take an image of an image server, and then deploy that out to other clients, just need to exclude /var/lib/systemimager. Alternatively, you can have images of image servers, if you have a large network, you can have a master server, and then deploy out X secondary servers, and then image Y servers from that, where 1<X<<Y. However, an image server can not image itself for the initial install... you might be able to si_updateclient the machine from itself if you really wanted to.. If you are comfortable with editing shell scripts, you can take a look at /var/lib/systemimager/scripts, and modify the script to change the partitioning. make sure you have a backup of the file, and are not doing this to an important machine. -- Paul Greidanus CAD Administrator / Systems Administrator Center of Excellence in Integrated Nanotools University of Alberta [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7368 http://www.cein.ualberta.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
