Simon Ruiz wrote:
> I must admit I'm glad to see someone reply to the questions, as I was
> about to give the mailing list up for dead based on the
> question/response ratio before you jumped on and answered all those
> questions. The more I come to understand SystemImager, though, I'll
> also be able to help.
long mail = long delay ;-)
> In my experience, using an image of Ubuntu that was created on the
> 170Ls would not quite work on the 210Ls, however you have piqued my
> curiosity, and I'll experiment with that a little. It wasn't the
> kernel that was the problem, I believe, it was some configuration
> files (which I may well be able to change, given some
> troubleshooting...I'd just so far been using one image per hardware
> model).
>
> I wonder, though, if I should probably have a different image for the
> laptops (that we have yet to get) at least, given their need for
> special power management packages and such that are not necessary on
> the desktops. What do you think?
seems reasonable. When you begin to have some different packages it's
always suggested to use different images.
> But, the question is should DHCP be set up to assign the workstations
> Static IP's? It seems from reading the documentation that this would
> help out quite a bit, but I don't want to go through the trouble of
> getting our corporate IT people to configure the DHCP server that way
> if I'm mis-judging what I read.
sure, dhcp can be configured to assign static IPs to the clients, you
simply add static matches from IP and mac address, for example:
host nodeXXX {
hardware ethernet yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy;
fixed-address nodeXXX;
}
Anyway you need to know the mac address of each client or do something
to autodiscover that...
> So, could I take the contents of the si_mkautoinstalldiskette and
> plop them on a USB key, modify the USB key's MBR with grub and have
> this working? Out of curiosity, since I'm mostly interested in doing
> this over a network, might there be a way to do this all from the USB
> key (that is, with a USB key large enough to hold a copy of the image
> on it?). I'm going to have to dig into BitTorrent delivery, as well,
> as we've got 279 workstations.
mmh... what happens if you run si_mkautoinstalldiskette with --floppy
/dev/<your_usb_key_device>?
Regards,
-Andrea
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