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Hello! New systemimager user
here. I got into this because I have inherited a linux
cluster that I am setting up on several rx2600 Itanium servers. I got introduced to SystemImager because the servers came
with an "HP Enablement kit for linux"
- that among tweaking /boot/efi for elilo, also includes a systemimager
series of files for installation- AND--- the enablement CD allows for
booting the "systemimager client" several ways-
INCLUDING allowing you to fill in the values that ultimately become a temporary
local.cfg. This works great- with the exception that this HP cd has an
older version of SYstemImager-- client V3.0.x. It works "OK",
but I run into some crumbs of the old hostname in the new server- and I think
those issues got cleaned up in SystemImager 3.1.x or 3.2.xx. So, I decided to try to get and utilize the latest stable
SystemImager software, unaware that the CD made by "mkautoinstallcd"
really only allows you to get info from a local DHCP server, yadda yadda yadda. I currently find myself in the same boat as several others -
and a growing number - of admins with servers that ONLY have a CD
drive. If I had a floppy drive- I wouldn't be here, I
guess. I am also doubly impacted by the fact that I have no
configuration control in our campus's DHCP server, and I don't
have enough nodes to even warrant an extra DHCP server
either. All I want to do is boot-- enter
some config info, and then "go" with the remainder of the install. So, I am visiting this list to ask two questions, really: a) It appears
that "local.cfg" for mkautoinstallcd is not there yet--- but
it looks like it's bubbling up to the top of the wish list. Any
updates or timeframes? Someone mentioned check in V3.3.3, but even
the unstable rev is at 3.3.2...... This
would mean a different CD for each node, but I can live with that. b) The second
question is more like a "feature'request", and that is to ask
if it would be possible to allow for "on the fly" insertion of
local.cfg info as the system boots? The concept has already been
proven - and apparently DONE by the folks at HP/Debian in their
jointly-created "HP Enablement kit for Linux" CD.
You insert the boot CD, boot- choose SystemImager- and then answer some
questions. (1) DHCP client, or (2) static address? [fill in info here if
yes]. Any updates to these issues would be wonderful.
Keep up the good work, guys. It's a very cool time-saving
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