What you're doing should prevent tmpfs staging. And yes -- it is off by default.
Can you provide the output of "df -k" from the console of a failed autoinstall client? Thanks, -Brian On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Tristam MacDonald <swiftco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am setting up our university lab machines to image via system imager. The > image is around 7 GB, and on every attempt to install the image, I end up > running out of RAM (2 GB) on each client machine. > > I am running system imager 4.1.6, from the apt repository on Ubuntu 10.04 > amd64. I am using the default rsync mechanism, and using netboot to initiate > installs. > > I have set option-144 to "n" in my dhcp server (which is separate to my > image server), and have passed TMPFS_STAGING=no as a kernel boot parameter, > either of which I believe should disable tmpfs staging. I also believe that > tmpfs staging is meant to be disabled by default, though the docs are > somewhat fuzzy on that particular issue. > > Is there anything I am likely to have done wrong which is causing tmpfs to > be on in all cases? And anything I can do to remedy this? > > I am happy to post configuration/logs/etc. if it will be of any help. > > Thanks, > > -- > Tristam MacDonald > http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > sisuite-users mailing list > sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > -- Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.447.9108 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
