I never got autoinstall running on debian so I gave up and used a autoinstall CD. The only dependency I can think of is a working Lilo install. The only problem I had was lilo didn't like there format for the ram disk. I think we were running lilo 22.6.
Good luck, Robert H. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 1:42 PM Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] si_prepareclient not working on debian > Robert, > > Thanks for the tip. I am now able to run the prepareclient command and the > getimage from the server. > > My goal is to be able to reimage an existing server to another Linux > distro. > The docs say that one option is to boot the client from its own hard > drive, > and that you can simply copy the updateclient command and run it with the > autoinstall option. > > Does si_updateclient have any dependencies that I need to be concerned > about? > > Alan > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob >> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 1:08 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] si_prepareclient not working on debian >> >> I had this same problem before. >> >> The documentation is wrong. you need the boot_i386 package >> installed on the client for si_prepareclient to operate. Use >> aptitude to select the package and then make sure >> systemimager-server doesn't go in. >> >> Be forwarned you might run into alot of bugs using 3.6.3. I >> did and it took about 4 days of work to get a usable imaging workflow. >> >> If you have anymore issues just post to the list and I'll see >> if I can answer them. >> >> Robert >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Alan Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 3:27 PM >> Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] si_prepareclient not working on debian >> >> >> >I used the version in unstable, and I am having the same problem with >> > si_prepareclient. It looks like the version in unstable is >> the same as >> > testing and stable, 3.6.3. Anymore suggestions. Am I doing >> something wrong >> > or aer the debian packages just broken? >> > >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> >> Behalf Of Bernard Li >> >> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 1:26 PM >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] si_prepareclient not working on debian >> >> >> >> I would recommend that you grab the systemimager version from >> >> debian unstable. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> >> Bernard >> >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> >> Behalf Of Alan >> >> > Holmes >> >> > Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:23 >> >> > To: [email protected] >> >> > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] si_prepareclient not >> working on debian >> >> > >> >> > I am using the debian stable version >> >> > >> >> > > -----Original Message----- >> >> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of >> >> > > Bernard Li >> >> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:45 AM >> >> > > To: [email protected] >> >> > > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] si_prepareclient not working >> >> on debian >> >> > > >> >> > > Hi Alan: >> >> > > >> >> > > Which version are you using? Are you using the version >> >> from Debian >> >> > > unstable? >> >> > > >> >> > > Cheers, >> >> > > >> >> > > Bernard >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > -----Original Message----- >> >> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on >> >> behalf of Alan >> >> > > Holmes >> >> > > Sent: Tue 26/09/2006 17:46 >> >> > > To: [email protected] >> >> > > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] si_prepareclient not working >> >> on debian >> >> > > >> >> > > > So, besides installing from source, which I really prefer >> >> > not to do >> >> > > > because the apt db doesn't know about it then, are there >> >> > > other options >> >> > > > for resolving this. It would seem like it might be better >> >> > > to just scp >> >> > > > or rsync the initrd_template dir from the image server. >> >> > Has anyone >> >> > > > tried this. Are there other files that prepareclient >> >> > > requires that are >> >> > > > not in the initrd_template dir? >> >> > > >> >> > > I tried copying the files in >> >> > > /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/initrd_template/ >> from the image >> >> > > server to the client and then si_prepareclient failed with a >> >> > > different error. >> >> > > Unfortunately I was able to capture the exact error message. >> >> > > >> >> > > I decided to try a different technique. Instead of >> installing the >> >> > > packages from the debian repository I tried the >> >> > > download.systemimager.org/debian files and I am still >> getting the >> >> > > error that the >> /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/initrd_template/ >> >> > > directory can't be found be the prepareclient program. >> >> > > >> >> > > Anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this? >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > > ----------- >> >> > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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