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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andrea Righi
Sent: Mon 11/6/2006 6:08 PM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Introduction, and my issues
> 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.
Well, I'm having no luck getting the images from the 170L to work on the 210L,
so I'll likely need 3 different images. In fact, the 170L image doesn't bring
up the upstart screen up correctly on a different 170L, strange...
> 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...
Yeah I got that, totally understood. The question is: is it worth it for me to
run around collecting MAC addresses from 300 workstations, and go through the
trouble of asking our downtown people to make a change to their sacred server,
in order to get static IP addresses? Is it the best way of using SystemImager?
> 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>?
The same thing that happened when I tried running si_mkautoinstalldiskette
--floppy /dev/sda to make an auto install diskette on a USB floppy drive:
"ERROR: Invalid -floppy argument."
BTW, and this relates to my first e-mail where I said:
> 4) Next I tried installing systemimager-client on the client to be
> re-imaged, and set it up to boot SystemImager from the hard disk.
> This does not work either.
Well, I thought the problem might be the FAT12 partition that I needed for my
convoluted Ghost setup, so I created a Ghost image directly from the golden
client (with only 2 partitions, hda1 as an ext3 partition and hda5 as a swap
partition) and blasted it onto another 170L. I then followed the documented
path for booting from the hard disk (updateclient -a -server imageserver -c
eth0), only to come upon the very same problems I did the first time, namely:
Partition check:
hda:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0 (and 2, 4, 6, 0, 2, 4,
6, then...)
unable to read partition table
Later, we get the following:
Mounting hard drive...
FATAL: Couldn't mount hard drive!
Before dropping to a BusyBox prompt...
Any ideas?
Thanks for your time!
Simón
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