Re: [Sisuite-users] /dev empty

2005-10-19 Thread Jan Groenewald
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 -- .~.

Re: [Sisuite-users] message.txt menu not displaying

2005-10-19 Thread John Stile
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 b

Re: [Sisuite-users] message.txt menu not displaying

2005-10-19 Thread Charles Galpin
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 requi

Re: [Sisuite-users] message.txt menu not displaying

2005-10-19 Thread John Jolet
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 th

Re: [Sisuite-users] how to rsync on non-standard port

2005-10-19 Thread John Stile
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? Su

Re: [Sisuite-users] /dev empty

2005-10-19 Thread John Stile
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

[Sisuite-users] message.txt menu not displaying

2005-10-19 Thread John Stile
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

Re: [Sisuite-users] /dev empty

2005-10-19 Thread John Jolet
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 i

Re: [Sisuite-users] /dev empty

2005-10-19 Thread John Stile
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 aut

[Sisuite-users] how to rsync on non-standard port

2005-10-19 Thread John Stile
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://solu

Re: [Sisuite-users] /dev empty

2005-10-19 Thread John Jolet
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 prob

Re: [Sisuite-users] mk2fs and bytes per inode

2005-10-19 Thread Daniel Widyono
> 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, dis

[Sisuite-users] /dev empty

2005-10-19 Thread John Stile
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