Well, I'll answer my own question. Word to anyone who might be reading this list, looking for pre-boot settings for their machine if you're not running a DHCP server:
1) You *have* to specify a BROADCAST setting, whether you are using a broadcast protocol or not. 2) I would recommend using *all* the network settings, or you may run into some trouble. 3) If you have a set of disk partitions that are large, you *must* increase your rsync timeout because the first query for the BOEL files comes before parted and mke2fs commands, then the rsync starts. -R On 10/27/2010 9:25 AM, Robby Desmond wrote: > Hey SI-users, > > Question: Should I abandon all hope of ever getting support from the > SISuite lists? > > Reasons: > > 1) The Wiki is spammed. > 2) Trac is spammed. > 3) Last "stable" release (which I'm trying to use, production > environment and all) is almost 3 years old. > 4) Trac roadmap indicates a version 4.2.x and 5.x in the sights, but > 4.1.7 is still not considered the "active stable". Is anyone at the > project going to clarify the "release cycle" such as it is? > 5) Only the developer list seems to get any response from anyone > involved with SISuite, leading me to believe that support is considered > "beneath" the project managers. > > > Now, just to give someone a fair chance, I'll reiterate the question I > initially posed to the list: > > I've generated a boot CD for an SI image stored on my SI server. I'm > using 4.0.2, because that is considered stable, and before I go tweaking > my autoinstall.conf file to generate CD images with the necessary > network options pre-embedded, I'm trying to test passing the network > options at the boot prompt. > > It would appear that SI is reading them correctly, but not passing them > to BusyBox's implementation of ifconfig correctly. I base this on the > fact that the SI script spits out a "usage" prompt from BusyBox for > ifconfig, tells me it failed to be able to use the network settings I > gave it, and then dumps me to the standard "something went wrong" message. > > I don't run a DHCP server and I don't want to run a DHCP server. I'm > using SI for bare-metal recovery only. (All my images are of individual > servers and all are REPLICANT for the the IP settings.) > > Anyone got an idea as to *why* this would not work? > > -R > -- Robby Desmond BiblioVault Operations Assistant University of Chicago Press http://www.bibliovault.org/ ph: 773-834-2387 cell: 773-458-0959 rdesm...@press.uchicago.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
