Simon,
comments below...
Simon Ruiz wrote:
>> 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...
>
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>
> 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?
if you don't care about the static assignment you can simply boot up the
clients and totally get dynamic addresses...
>
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>> 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>?
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> 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."
I will investigate if it's possible to adapt si_mkautoinstalldiskette
also to usb keys...
>
> 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...
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> Any ideas?
>
>
This happens when you reboot the client to install? btw which version of
systemimager are you using? (sorry I don't remember if I already asked
this question...).
Regards,
-Andrea
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