RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with si_mkatuoinstalldiskette
Dear all - i have now installed systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.4.1 rpmthis is looking better - as now si_mkautoinstalldiskette gets much further - however it still falls over at the end while trying to write out the syslinux.cfg file to diskette. Could this be down to the size of my kernel ? maybe it is too large ?? Any ideas much appreciated folks.here's is what happens now i have the additional boot rpm installed (thanks Alexandre): #si_mkautoinstalldiskette Here is a l ist of available flavors: standard Which flavor would you like to use? [standard]: This program assumes that you have a 1.44MB floppy drive and that it is /dev/fd0. You can use the --floppy command line option to change this value. If you do use --floppy, this command will run non-interactively!!! Use the --help option to see all options. Insert your floppy diskette now. This will overwrite all information on your diskette. Continue? (y/[n]): y Formatting floppy using /dev/fd0 ... Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB. Formatting ...done Verifying ... 0 79done Creating DOS filesystem on floppy... mkdosfs 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) Using "syslinux" to make floppy bootable... Creating temporary mount point... Mounting floppy... Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/fd0 1424 1424 0 100% /tmp/.autoinstalldiskette.2199 Couldn't copy /etc/systemimager/pxelinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg to /tmp/.autoinstalldiskette.2199!#mount /mnt/floppy #ls -ltr /mnt/floppy/-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 24 11:52 [00;32msyslinux.cfg[00m -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 696 Jan 24 11:52 [00;32mmessage.txt[00m -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 7856 Jan 24 11:52 [00;32mldlinux.sys[00m -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 925694 Jan 24 11:52 [00;32mkernel[00m -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 522373 Jan 24 11:52 [00;32minitrd.img[00mAlex TOURNIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check that you installed systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.4.1-1.noarch.rpm or similar?Alexandre TOURNIER System Administrator DG-JRC European Commission Institute for Environment and Sustainability - Global Environment Monitoring TP 440 - Via Fermi,1 21020 ISPRA (VA) - Italy tel: +x-332-785694 fax: +x-332-789073 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]web: http://www-gem.jrc.it/it_support/FTP: ftp://ftp-gem.jrc.it "The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission." (Disclaimer required under the terms and conditions of use of the internet and electronic m ail from Commission equipment)From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy ToddSent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:24 PMTo: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with si_mkatuoinstalldiskette Wonder if anybody can help me please ?I am trying again to get si working..(new years resolution)and am failing miserably.As far as i can see i've installed my si server, si golden client, grabbed an image from the golden client - all successfully. however when i try and create a boot diskette for my clients i get the following:#/usr/bin/si_mkautoinstalldisketteOdd number of elements in hash assignment at /usr/bin/si_mkautoinstalldiskette line 170.Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at /usr/bin/si_mkautoinstalldiskette line 170.Here is a list of available flavors: Which flavor would you like to use? []: I can't find boot files of flavor "" for the "i386" architecture.Try running with no options.#/usr/bin/si_mkautoinstalldiskette -config /var/lib/systemimager/train-rh9-img1.local.cfgOdd number of elements in hash assignment at /usr/bin/si_mkautoinstalldiskette line 170.Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at /usr/bin/si_mkautoinstalldiskette line 170.Here is a list of available flavors: Which flavor would you like to use? []: I can't find boot files of flavor "" for the "i386" architecture.Try running with no options.OS: RH9 (server and clients)H/w: dual Xeon 3.6HDD: Sata x2 80Gbsi versions: si server 3.4.1-1.noarch.rpmsi client 3.4.1-1.noarch.rpm si configurator 2.2.2-1.noarch.rpm si perl-XML-Simple 2.14-2.1.el3.rf.noarch.rpmAny help - really appreciated. thanks Best RegardsAndyTTo help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. Best RegardsAndyT Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail
RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs
Bernard, No I am not using LVM, the fstab shows: LABEL=/ / ext3 default 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 default 1 2 none /devpts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs default 0 0 none /dev/proc proc default 0 0 /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 swap swap default 0 0 dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 de/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto and sfdisk shows three partitions p1, p2, p3 (/, /boot and swap) for /dev/cciss/c0d0, which size is 142253280. This corresponds with what SI tries creates a dev of the same size, and part1, part2, part3 components. Thanks, Bela -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard Li Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 7:33 PM To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net; sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs Are you using LVM? Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of B. Erdelyi Sent: Fri 20/01/2006 11:11 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs Hi, I am attempting an image install with si_mkautoinstallcd using SI 3.6.3. The tmpfs mounted as / is not large enough to create the entire file structure. The process ends with tmpfs 99% full. I have attempted to specify the append option to si_mkautoinstallcd with various values without success. The following parameters were specified: tmpfs_size=2G tmpfs_nr_inodes=2000 tmpfs_size=1g tmpfs_nr_inodes=1000 tmpfs_size=1g Regardless, tmpfs is created each time the same size with or without the mount options specified at: 452,788 1-k blocks. This is weird since the machine has 2G of RAM, I would expect to see a default tmpfs mount of about 1G. It seems that si_mkautoinstallcd is not passing the arguments to the mount tmpfs command. Is there a place in the scripts where I could explicitly specify the tmpfs mount options? I have searched the autoinstall and SystemImager::Server.pm scripts, but I cannot find the logical place to impact a change. It seems that the golden image will install properly if I could just get tmpfs to increase in size. Thanks, Bela
