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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andrea Righi Sent: Wed 3/7/2007 2:48 PM To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Network Adapter Fun! Simon Ruiz wrote: > As always, I'm working with Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft on both the client > and server. > > 1) My main issue now seems to be that on reboot the computer that's > been newly re-imaged does not recognize the network. I have to go in > and manually activate the network adapter (no longer eth0, now it's > eth1). Does anyone else have experience with this type of thing and > how to fix it? I'm not sure about this... but have you checked the file /etc/iftab in your image? Right on, so RMing /etc/iftab seems to take care of this issue. Awesome! I figured it'd be something simple like that. Thanks! > 2) Is there an append option for the autoinstallcd to make it reboot > or shutdown after being imaged? That beeping is nice for now, when > I'm imaging a client in the other room, but it won't be when I'm > imaging a few hundred computers in classrooms and leaving the process > running over the weekend. ...beeping hundreds of clients would be great! lol! I would be amused, I just think the teachers might have a conniption when they came in Monday morning. Heheh. I can't imagine what it would sound like if all the workstations in every English classroom just started beeping incessantly... You can change the post install action running si_mkautoinstallscript with "--post-install reboot" option. This will also re-create your autoinstallscript, so be sure to make a copy if you changed it manually. Will this be overwritten when I update that image? It always wants to re-create the autoinstall script. > 3) My current configuration scheme is designed for use with Norton > Ghost which we were using until recently. It involves rc.local > checking at boot time whether the machine's macaddress corresponds to > that of the golden client, and if not then whether it's hostname is > nordx--image, if so then it runs an autoconfig script. The autoconfig > script wgets a comma-delimited plain-text file from an apache server, > searches through it for it's own MAC address and, using the identity > variables that it gets, changes its hostname, sets up its printer, > etc. > > With SystemImager, I know there are all kinds of spiffy scripts that > get called during the installation process at different times and in > different circumstances, so I'm sure there's a better way to do this > autoconfiguration than what I'm doing. However, I can't seem to find > documentation of how they work at wiki.systemimager.org. Might the > documentation exist somewhere else for my perusal? Do you mean post-install scripts? try to look in /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/post-install/README. And here you can find some examples: http://svn.systemimager.org/listing.php?repname=systemimager&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fdoc%2Fexamples%2Fpost-install%2F&rev=0&sc=0 I'll try post a comment about pre/post install scripts on wiki ASAP. Right on, I'd like to use SystemImager's built-in functionality as much as possible. It doesn't make much sense to build up a convulted process to do stuff that could be easily done in SystemImager. The less documentation I have to put together so this program can survive when I leave, the better. Regards, -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
