I put a bunch of comments about using SI 3.7.4r3734_bli-1 to image some FC5 systems, but putting them all in one message was probably a mistake, so here follows some issues with separate subject lines. Sorry for the dupes.
golden client: FC5 desktop, serial ATA imaged systems: mix of PATA, SATA, and SCSI == problem: The disk enumeration fails to detect a P-ATA disk (hda) and falls back to using sda (since golden client has a sata disk). I can't really decipher that chunk of code (looking in /proc/diskstats, which does contain a bunch of lines for hda), so I put in a work-around which is sufficient for our simple systems: DISK0=`test -e /proc/ide/hda/geometry && echo "/dev/hda" || echo "/dev/sda"` (ie if hda is a hard disk, that is the target, otherwise sda is the target; we have a mix of pata, sata, and regular scsi)... This is clearly not a general solution, but it is our current workaround. As a side effect, the "disk edit" section farther down is skipped because DISKORDER is zero-length. For the grub.conf, we always edit it in a postUpdate script anyway since we are upating servers and desktops (servers have extra serial console config in the grub.conf). For the fstab (swap devices since FC5 uses disk labels) I fix that in a post-install script. -- Patrick Dowler Tel/Tél: (250) 363-6914 | fax/télécopieur: (250) 363-0045 Canadian Astronomy Data Centre | Centre canadien de donnees astronomiques National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada 5071 West Saanich Road | 5071, chemin West Saanich Victoria, BC | Victoria (C.-B.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
