hi Sunil, this file should exist in /sbin directory when rootimg.gz is unpacked .
regards, prem. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Sunil Venkatesh <suni...@umbc.edu> wrote: > Hi Josh/Prem, > > I was trying to get xcat working with the PPC. However, I couldn't find the > partimage-ng binary on the ramdisk. Is there any place I could find this > package? I have the partimage binaries that I downloaded off a website, but > couldn't find partimage-ng in that package. I am using statelite to capture > the image from the PPC blade. > > Regards, > Sunil > > On 6/9/11 4:58 PM, Prem Kumar wrote: >> >> Josh, >> >> got it to work!!! >> >> 'usepartimageng=0' set it to 1. >> >> never mind about the link to download partimage-ng, i was under the >> impression, that i will have to install partimage-ng, then looked >> around to realize it already exists in rootimg.gz. >> >> sincere thanks for patiently helping, now moving to next step! >> >> regards, >> prem. >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Prem Kumar<prem.it.ku...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> hi Josh, >>> >>>> I need to add this to the documentation and should have mentioned it >>>> earlier. >>>> partimage can only capture a few file system types. I don't remember >>>> the >>>> exact list. I know it includes ext2/ext3 and ntfs. I also know that it >>>> cannot capture ext4 and anything involving LVM. That is part of why I >>>> included support for partimageng. If it doesn't natively know how to >>>> handle >>>> the file system, it will fall back to using dd to capture it. Search >>>> for >>>> 'usepartimageng=0' in the partimageng postscript and change it to =1 to >>>> switch >>>> to using partimageng. >>>> >>>> Is the file system to be captured either ext2 or ext3 and without having >>>> LVM >>>> invovled? >>> >>> file system involved is ext3 and without 'lvm'. so i am good on that. >>> >>> i could not find partimage-ng for download, could you point me to a >>> genuine source, sourceforege doesn't have it. >>> >>> following is the link to /tmp/partimageng.log >>>> >>>> http://pastebin.com/YrbmsF99 >>> >>> also noticed following error from partimage log in /var/log >>> >>> >> "[Can't read bit map block 0 from image]" >>> >>> looking out for that errors tells me that it could be because of >>> running partimage in 'gui' mode as opposed to batch, still looking for >>> more reasons. >>> >>> meanwhile i will look for other errors and wait for link to partimage-ng. >>> >>> regards, >>> prem. >>> >
