Hi all,
I am trying to do Ubuntu mass installation with systemimager. I am using
Ubuntu 8.04 (for both golden client and server) and installed
systemimager v 4.02 (deb packages) from sourceforge. The client and
server machines are all Intel Celeron M 1.2GHz with 256 MB RAM (minus
32MB shared display memory) and 80GB of HDD. I chose the default options
for Ubuntu installation/HDD partitioning (using the entire HDD).
I followed the steps in the manual that comes with systemimager. I set
up a DHCP server on the server machine and configured it to use PXE.
Prepareclient, getimage, si_clusterconfig, mkdhcpserver and mkbootserver
(I chose no for tmpfs) steps went ok. When I ran mkdhcpserver script, I
chose to use flamethrower. My "default" file under pxelinux.cfg folder
looked like this:
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DISPLAY message.txt
DEFAULT netboot
LABEL netboot
kernel kernel
append vga=normal initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_blocksize=1024
ramdisk_size=80000
PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 3
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and I added this to cluster.xml when I run si_clusterconfig -e
<group>
<name>Ubuntu</name>
<priority>5</priority>
<image>ubuntu8.04</image>
<override>ubuntu8.04</override>
<node>Terminal20-Terminal50</node>
</group>
When I started up a client machine, it got an IP address from the server
and the systemimager message displays. It went through some steps and
then at one point it says:
-------
[54.743127] Out of memory: kill process 15042 (cp) score 30 or a child
[54.743190] Killed process 15042 (cp)
Killed
Killing off running processes.
write_variables
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and then it says "Your install has failed". I tried many things like
changing the ramdisk_size and shutting down the gdm, but the failed
message is the same (out of memory at cp). I searched the mailing list
and saw the out of memory error can be due to using rsync and some
suggested using bittorrent. (I am running only 1 client and I don't
think using bit torrent will make any difference) I tried that anyway
and change the default file for pxelinux as follows:
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DEFAULT ubuntu8.04
DISPLAY message.txt
PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 5
LABEL ubuntu8.04
KERNEL kernel
APPEND vga=extended initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram BITTORRENT=y
MONITOR_SERVER=10.0.10.1
----------------------
It doesn't make any difference. When systemimager finished creating the
tar file, I found that the file is over 4.3 GB. Do you think that might
be causing that error? Also, if I use bittorrent, do I need to change
the extra parameters in the dhcpd.conf file added by mkdhcpserver?
Sorry about the long mail and thanks for any help/advice you can
provide. I have searched the mailing list and didn't find anything that
can resolve the problem I am having.
Thanks once again.
Phyo
p.s- When I send this from the email address I registered,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], it failed. The failure email said there is no
postmaster email address in that domain. Thus I have to use this address.
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