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From: Andrea Righi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 11/9/2006 5:18 PM To: Simon Ruiz Cc: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Introduction, and my issues Simon, comments below... Simon Ruiz wrote: > 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... Is there any benefit to making them static? > 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... That would be very useful in our situation. We have over a hundred computers where our only input method is USB > 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? > > 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...). I'm installing the "systemimager-client" package from the Ubuntu Edgy "universe" repository. The package claims to be version 3.2.3-3. The "systemconfigurator" package is also from the Ubuntu Edgy "universe" repository. That one claims to be version 2.0.10-1. Yeah, this happens when I reboot after running "sudo updateclient -a -server imageserver -c eth0", which is what I understood the documentation to be telling me to do if I wanted to boot to autoinstall from the client's hard drive on one of my 170Ls, I'm going to try it now on a 210L. Hey, thanks for your time. I really appreciate it. Regards, -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
