On Saturday 06 July 2002 05:02 pm, Jason Bechtel wrote: > Hal, > > Great! Glad you hear you're making some progress. As for > mounting, it depends how you will be imaging the freshly > formatted disks. For partitioning and formatting, there is > no mounting involved. It's what you want to do with your > formatted partitions that matters...
Thanks. It's been frustrating -- for about a week and half I bumped into obstacles at every step (the kind that can take a day or two to sovle), and now everything is finally falling together quickly. It's just the simple things now, like creating the setup I want and making sure it's got all the apps and settings I need. > If you can put together an image of a partition on the > server and place it in an NFS exported directory, then you > could just dump it to the raw block device with a command > like: > > cat /images/linux_partition_1.img > /dev/hda1 > > For example, if you put the image in > /opt/ltsp/i386/images/, then you could reference the file > this way. I'm not absolutely sure how you'd assemble the > image off-hand, but I imagine the 'dd' command could do it > for you. Try something like this on the server: > > dd if=/dev/hdb3 of=/opt/ltsp/i386/linux_partition_1.img > > This should create a bit-for-bit image of the third > partition on the primary slave IDE drive of the server. > > The other way of handling it would be mount the > partition(s) and then copy the filesystem contents onto it > using 'tar' or just plain 'cp': > > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/temp > cd /mnt/temp > tar xzf /images/linux_partition_1.tar.gz Actually, that's what I'm going to do. I'm using a perl script just to unite all the steps, but I'm copying it over to an nfs mounted directory on the server. I've been so focused on other issues, I hadn't even thought about this, but I'm glad you mentioned it, because I hadn't even thought of making a tarball. I'd have probably remembered to to that AFTER I had everything running perfectly... On the other hand, it's a lot easier to make simple changes (like adding a perl module) if I don't compact it and just use cp. I'm not sure which would give me the most advantage. > This might actually be better if you have well-endowed > client systems because you could create a compressed > tarball image on the NFS mount and then save yourself some > bandwidth. If you have 486's or low-end Pentiums as > clients, however, the decompressing would slow down the > whole operation, so you might as well just download the > whole binary image over NFS. > > Good luck! > Jason The machines are decently endowed -- the first one is a 1.1 Ghz system, the 2nd test system will be the same, but after that, I'll be doing a few 500 Mhz systems. Speed, in terms of processing time, is not nearly as much an issue as my time, so if it takes a little longer to load, but that doesn't take more of my time, it won't be a problem. > > > From: Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Access to local devices > > Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 11:20:42 -0400 > > > > Got it working! > > > > I realize this will differ for a CD or CDRW, but this is > > how I got the ha= > > > rd=20 > > drive recognized and working. > > > > I added two modules to lts.config: > > > > MODULE_01 =3D ide-probe-mod > > MODULE_02 =3D ide-disk > > > > I was also told to go to runlevel 3, so change the > > runlevel line in lts.c= > > > onf=20 > > to: > > > > RUNLEVEL =3D 3 > > > > I was originally told to at ext2 as well, but there was > > no ext2 mod and i= > > > t=20 > > worked without it. I'm not sure what you'd need to do to > > use ext3 or oth= > > > er=20 > > file systems. When I asked, on the IRC channel, there was > > one person tha= > > > t=20 > > seemed to know this well, and he answered quickly. He > > didn't stay on the= > > > =20 > > channel long. Someone else was staying on and chatting > > with other people= > > > =2E =20 > > He reluctantly answered my questions about this (I wanted > > to make sure a=20 > > > mount was not required for this -- I think I did have to > > add a simple mou= > > > nt=20 > > line to /etc/fstab, something like "/dev/hda1 > > /mnt/localhd defaults 0 0",= > > > =20 > > although he told me that would not be required). > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Got root? We do. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Got root? We do. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
