RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with si_mkatuoinstalldiskette

[Andy Todd]

Dear all - i have now installed systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.4.1 rpm

 

this 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 syslinux.cfg

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 696 Jan 24 11:52 message.txt

-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 7856 Jan 24 11:52 ldlinux.sys

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 925694 Jan 24 11:52 kernel

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 522373 Jan 24 11:52 initrd.img

Alex TOURNIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Check that you installed  systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.4.1-1.noarch.rpm or similar?

 

 

Alexandre TOURNIER
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Todd
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:24 PM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: 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_mkautoinstalldiskette

Odd 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.cfg
Odd 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 3.6

HDD: Sata x2 80Gb

si versions:  si server 3.4.1-1.noarch.rpm

                  si 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.rpm

 

Any help - really appreciated.  thanks

 

 

Best Regards

AndyT

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