[Sisuite-users] /dev empty
My golden client images have an empty /dev directory. This causes many problems when the newly imaged system tries to boot. I can hack around it by coppying /dev from another system, but each time I 'getimage' dev is empty. I couldn't find an 'exclude /dev' in all the configs. Any ideas? On the image server: systemimager-3.2.3, tftpd-hpa-0.40-4.1, tftp-hpa-0.40-4.1 pxe-1.4.2-1. On the client: systemimager-3.2.3. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] mk2fs and bytes per inode
> Now that I've made a spectacular introduction, I'm going to sheepishly > go hide. Thanks to you both John and Brian! Welcome! :) Dan W. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] /dev empty
on my systems it does the same thing, I assumed it was because gentoo uses udev. I put a step in my autoinstall script that rsyncs /dev/* right before the chroot step. On Oct 19, 2005, at 2:05 PM, John Stile wrote: My golden client images have an empty /dev directory. This causes many problems when the newly imaged system tries to boot. I can hack around it by coppying /dev from another system, but each time I 'getimage' dev is empty. I couldn't find an 'exclude /dev' in all the configs. Any ideas? On the image server: systemimager-3.2.3, tftpd-hpa-0.40-4.1, tftp-hpa-0.40-4.1 pxe-1.4.2-1. On the client: systemimager-3.2.3. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] how to rsync on non-standard port
Ihere an option to getimage to make it use extra rsync switches? Such as changing the port or adding '-e ssh' --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] /dev empty
That is strange. rsync shouldn't ignore /dev, unless configured to do so. Do you know where getimage read it's rsync config options? On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:09 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > on my systems it does the same thing, I assumed it was because gentoo > uses udev. I put a step in my autoinstall script that rsyncs /dev/* > right before the chroot step. > > On Oct 19, 2005, at 2:05 PM, John Stile wrote: > > > My golden client images have an empty /dev directory. > > This causes many problems when the newly imaged system tries to > > boot. I > > can hack around it by coppying /dev from another system, but each > > time I > > 'getimage' dev is empty. > > I couldn't find an 'exclude /dev' in all the configs. > > Any ideas? > > On the image server: > > systemimager-3.2.3, > > tftpd-hpa-0.40-4.1, > > tftp-hpa-0.40-4.1 > > pxe-1.4.2-1. > > On the client: > > systemimager-3.2.3. > > > > > > > > --- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, > > discussions, > > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > > ___ > > Sisuite-users mailing list > > Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > > > > > --- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > ___ > Sisuite-users mailing list > Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] /dev empty
I'm trying to recall... I believe I saw an explicit ignore of /dev somewhere...it would be maybe in the client-side prepareclient stuff. On Oct 19, 2005, at 5:23 PM, John Stile wrote: That is strange. rsync shouldn't ignore /dev, unless configured to do so. Do you know where getimage read it's rsync config options? On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:09 -0500, John Jolet wrote: on my systems it does the same thing, I assumed it was because gentoo uses udev. I put a step in my autoinstall script that rsyncs /dev/* right before the chroot step. On Oct 19, 2005, at 2:05 PM, John Stile wrote: My golden client images have an empty /dev directory. This causes many problems when the newly imaged system tries to boot. I can hack around it by coppying /dev from another system, but each time I 'getimage' dev is empty. I couldn't find an 'exclude /dev' in all the configs. Any ideas? On the image server: systemimager-3.2.3, tftpd-hpa-0.40-4.1, tftp-hpa-0.40-4.1 pxe-1.4.2-1. On the client: systemimager-3.2.3. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
[Sisuite-users] message.txt menu not displaying
My clients installing via PXE, but do not display the message.txt menu. After the timeout, they boot what ever the DEFAULT image is set to. They are hooked up to a standard lcd. Where would I find an error log for this stage? Below I have included my the .cfg and message.txt My /var/lib/tftpboot/X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg looks like this: BEGIN syslinux.cfg DEFAULT rebuild LABEL localhost LOCALBOOT 0 LABEL rebuild DISPLAY message.txt PROMPT 1 TIMEOUT 50 KERNEL ../X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/kernel APPEND vga=extended initrd=../X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/initrd.img root=/dev/ram tmpfs_size=800M END syslinux.cfg BEGIN message.txt 01= 0e 0c Welcome to John's SystemImager Image server 0e 0e To boot the OS choose 'local' or just wait. 0e 0e Your boot options are: 0e local --> Boot from local kernel 0e rebuild--> Rebuild with 0e 0e questions?? --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0e 01=0b END message.txt --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] /dev empty
On the client, I only see reference to '/dev ' in the client. /etc/systemimager/mounted_filesystems tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755) Once the client is running, and I run 'mount -l', /dev does not show up as mounted tmpfs. I've searched for tmpfs in the other scripts, but haven't found anything that would exclude all tmpfs mounts. On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 17:32 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > I'm trying to recall... I believe I saw an explicit ignore of /dev > somewhere...it would be maybe in the client-side prepareclient stuff. > > On Oct 19, 2005, at 5:23 PM, John Stile wrote: > > > That is strange. rsync shouldn't ignore /dev, unless configured to do > > so. Do you know where getimage read it's rsync config options? > > > > On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:09 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > > >> on my systems it does the same thing, I assumed it was because gentoo > >> uses udev. I put a step in my autoinstall script that rsyncs /dev/* > >> right before the chroot step. > >> > >> On Oct 19, 2005, at 2:05 PM, John Stile wrote: > >> > >> > >>> My golden client images have an empty /dev directory. > >>> This causes many problems when the newly imaged system tries to > >>> boot. I > >>> can hack around it by coppying /dev from another system, but each > >>> time I > >>> 'getimage' dev is empty. > >>> I couldn't find an 'exclude /dev' in all the configs. > >>> Any ideas? > >>> On the image server: > >>> systemimager-3.2.3, > >>> tftpd-hpa-0.40-4.1, > >>> tftp-hpa-0.40-4.1 > >>> pxe-1.4.2-1. > >>> On the client: > >>> systemimager-3.2.3. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> --- > >>> This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > >>> Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, > >>> discussions, > >>> and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > >>> ___ > >>> Sisuite-users mailing list > >>> Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> --- > >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > >> Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, > >> discussions, > >> and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > >> ___ > >> Sisuite-users mailing list > >> Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > >> > > > > > > > > --- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, > > discussions, > > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > > ___ > > Sisuite-users mailing list > > Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > > > > > --- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > ___ > Sisuite-users mailing list > Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] how to rsync on non-standard port
This worked: getimage --golden-client my_golden_client:5004 \ --image 192.168.0.50 \ --ip-assignment REPLICANT \ --post-install reboot On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 14:24 -0700, John Stile wrote: > Ihere an option to getimage to make it use extra rsync switches? Such as > changing the port or adding '-e ssh' > > > > --- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > ___ > Sisuite-users mailing list > Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] message.txt menu not displaying
It's never displayed it for me, eitherbut that's not real high on my list of things to worry about, so I never looked into it. On Oct 19, 2005, at 5:40 PM, John Stile wrote: My clients installing via PXE, but do not display the message.txt menu. After the timeout, they boot what ever the DEFAULT image is set to. They are hooked up to a standard lcd. Where would I find an error log for this stage? Below I have included my the .cfg and message.txt My /var/lib/tftpboot/X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/ syslinux.cfg looks like this: BEGIN syslinux.cfg DEFAULT rebuild LABEL localhost LOCALBOOT 0 LABEL rebuild DISPLAY message.txt PROMPT 1 TIMEOUT 50 KERNEL ../X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/kernel APPEND vga=extended initrd=../X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/initrd.img root=/dev/ram tmpfs_size=800M END syslinux.cfg BEGIN message.txt 01 = 0e 0c Welcome to John's SystemImager Image server 0e 0e To boot the OS choose 'local' or just wait. 0e 0e Your boot options are: 0e local --> Boot from local kernel 0e rebuild--> Rebuild with 0e 0e questions?? --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0e 01 =0b END message.txt --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] message.txt menu not displaying
On Oct 19, 2005, at 6:40 PM, John Stile wrote: My clients installing via PXE, but do not display the message.txt menu. The pxe/syslinux site, http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php says "Note that all filename references are relative to the directory pxelinux.0 lives in. PXELINUX generally requires that filenames (including any relative path) are 127 characters or shorter in length." I don't have pxelinux.0, but I found message.txt displays if I put it in /tftboot (where I have pxelinux.bin) That site has other cool info, like how you can define files to display when you press F1,F2, etc too! hth charles --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] message.txt menu not displaying
Solved. A soft link caused wrong path, so message.txt was not found. This directory: /var/lib/tftpboot/X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg was a soft link to: /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg Both my pxelinux script and message.txt were in there. The client would see read the pxelinux script but fail to see message.txt FIX: 1. Moved message.txt to: /var/lib/tftpboot/X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/ 2. Changed DISPLAY line in syslinux.cfg: DISPLAY ../X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/message.txt Ultimately, I'd like to figure out how to make everything look at just /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/, but I need to learn about pxe.config. With PXE, TFTP, and systemimager all looking for this directory in different places, it gets really confusing. On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 15:40 -0700, John Stile wrote: > My clients installing via PXE, but do not display the message.txt menu. > After the timeout, they boot what ever the DEFAULT image is set to. > They are hooked up to a standard lcd. Where would I find an error log > for this stage? > > Below I have included my the .cfg and message.txt > > My /var/lib/tftpboot/X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg > looks like this: > BEGIN syslinux.cfg > DEFAULT rebuild > LABEL localhost > LOCALBOOT 0 > LABEL rebuild > DISPLAY message.txt > PROMPT 1 > TIMEOUT 50 > KERNEL ../X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/kernel > APPEND vga=extended initrd=../X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/initrd.img > root=/dev/ram tmpfs_size=800M > END syslinux.cfg > BEGIN message.txt > 01= > 0e > 0c Welcome to John's SystemImager Image server > 0e > 0e To boot the OS choose 'local' or just wait. > 0e > 0e Your boot options are: > 0e local --> Boot from local kernel > 0e rebuild--> Rebuild with > 0e > 0e questions?? --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 0e > 01=0b > END message.txt > > > > --- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > ___ > Sisuite-users mailing list > Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [Sisuite-users] /dev empty
Hi On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 04:09:05PM -0500, John Jolet wrote: > on my systems it does the same thing, I assumed it was because gentoo > uses udev. I put a step in my autoinstall script that rsyncs /dev/* > right before the chroot step. add devfs=mount to the kernel options Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users