I am running xCAT 2.8.  My imgcapture does not accept the -t option.

My osimage has a provmethod of statelite.  I changed it to diskless, but
get the same result.

Thank you for looking into this!

/Lindsay

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Lissa Valletta <[email protected]> wrote:

> What level of xCAT are you running.
>
> I wonder if this is simply a input parameter issues.  I assume xdsh rsa03
> date runs ok.
>
> What if you run imgcapture rsa03 -t diskless -o osimage -i eth0 -n igb  -V
>
> I think looking at the man page for imgcapture,  you can only use -o
> osimage if you type is diskless.
>
>
>
>
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> PM---Folks, I would like to build a statelite image from an exist]Lindsay
> Todd ---03/14/2013 02:36:33 PM---Folks, I would like to build a statelite
> image from an existing
>
> From: Lindsay Todd <[email protected]>
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
> Date: 03/14/2013 02:36 PM
> Subject: [xcat-user] Trouble using imgcapture
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Folks,
>
> I would like to build a statelite image from an existing
> freshly-installed diskful system image (so the workflow will be build
> a gold image system, then capture, then build other systems
> statelite).  But imgcapture is failing.  When I run it, I get this
> message:
>
> # imgcapture rsa03 -o SL6-x86_64-statelite-cng2 -i eth0 -n igb  -V
> nodename is rsa03; os is SL6; arch is x86_64; profile is cng2
> bootif is eth0; netdriver is igb
> the output of "stat / -f |grep Type" on rsa03 is:
> rsa03:     ID: 87cd4ce061a2fd20 Namelen: 255     Type: ext2/ext3
> The file type is ext2/ext3
> The excludestr is "cd /; find . ! -path "./tmp/*" ! -path "./proc/*" !
> -path "./sys/*" ! -path "./dev/*" ! -path "./xcatpost/*" ! -path
> "./install/*" |cpio -H newc -o |gzip -c - >/tmp/xcat_imgcapture.15312"
> running "echo -n > /tmp/xcat_imgcapture.15312" on rsa03
> Capturing image on rsa03...
> running "cd /; find . ! -path "./tmp/*" ! -path "./proc/*" ! -path
> "./sys/*" ! -path "./dev/*" ! -path "./xcatpost/*" ! -path
> "./install/*" |cpio -H newc -o |gzip -c - >/tmp/xcat_imgcapture.15312"
> on rsa03 via the "xdsh" command
> Error: The "xdsh" command fails to run "cd /; find . ! -path "./tmp/*"
> ! -path "./proc/*" ! -path "./sys/*" ! -path "./dev/*" ! -path
> "./xcatpost/*" ! -path "./install/*" |cpio -H newc -o |gzip -c -
> >/tmp/xcat_imgcapture.15312" on rsa03
> # echo $?
> 1
>
> So obviously the xdsh command fails?  Let's try that directly (slight
> change to use another output file):
>
> # xdsh rsa03 'cd /; find . ! -path "./tmp/*" ! -path "./proc/*" !
> -path "./sys/*" ! -path "./dev/*" ! -path "./xcatpost/*" ! -path
> "./install/*" |cpio -H newc -o |gzip -c - >/tmp/xcat_imgcapture.15313'
> Error: rsa03: 4075749 blocks
> # echo $?
> 0
>
> So it worked?  Or not?  How about running the command directly on rsa03:
>
> # xdsh rsa03 'cd /; find . ! -path "./tmp/*" ! -path "./proc/*" !
> -path "./sys/*" ! -path "./dev/*" ! -path "./xcatpost/*" ! -path
> "./install/*" |cpio -H newc -o |gzip -c - >/tmp/xcat_imgcapture.15314
> 4075776 blocks
> gzip: / is a directory -- ignored
> 4075776 blocks
> # echo $?
> 0
>
> That looks like it worked.  So what failed?  I guess maybe something
> wrote to stderr (like the status messages)?
> --
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