15 Aug
2007
15 Aug
'07
6:54 p.m.
Subject line sums up the question. What I'm trying to do
is to generate a "sender" initrd with cast-o-matic that
mounts a partition (using cast-o-matic's "Other commands
to be executed before transfer but after menu:") where
image files are stored and then serve out the image files
with udpcast.
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Tom Carpenter
Computer Systems Specialist
Biology 347 Morrill
611 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003-9297
phone: 413-577-2311
fax: 413-545-3243
email: tomc(a)bio.umass.edu
16 Aug
16 Aug
7:22 a.m.
Tom Carpenter wrote:
Subject line sums up the question. What I'm trying
to do
is to generate a "sender" initrd with cast-o-matic that
mounts a partition (using cast-o-matic's "Other commands
to be executed before transfer but after menu:") where
image files are stored and then serve out the image files
with udpcast.
Cast-o-matic is for configuring the "embedded system" to be booted on the
system to be imaged.
Mounting partitions containing image files on the other hand is typically
something you'd do on the server, not in the embedded system
Alain
1:21 p.m.
New subject: can cast-o-matic's "Device to be copied" be ignored or bypassed?
Alain Knaff wrote:
Tom Carpenter wrote:
I've been trying to use one system as both. I've got a PC with
two hard drives; one used as the system drive for whichever
operating system I want to boot and the other for storing the
operating system/software image files. I've been able to use
cast-o-matic sender images to do what I want but the process
is a bit kludgy...press CTRL-C once I've gotten through the
setup menu, go to one of the other consoles, create a mount
point and mount the image drive, then start up udpsender with
"--file" and serve out the image of choice. Part of the reason
I've been doing it this way is that the server (on which I am
not the admin) for the lab of PCs I'm managing is a Sun E250
running Solaris 9...do you know of anyone that's ported udpcast
to Solaris for SPARC?
--
Tom Carpenter
Computer Systems Specialist
Biology 347 Morrill
611 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003-9297
phone: 413-577-2311
fax: 413-545-3243
email: tomc(a)bio.umass.edu
Subject line sums up the question. What I'm
trying to do
is to generate a "sender" initrd with cast-o-matic that
mounts a partition (using cast-o-matic's "Other commands
to be executed before transfer but after menu:") where
image files are stored and then serve out the image files
with udpcast.
Cast-o-matic is for configuring the "embedded system" to be booted on
the system to be imaged.
Mounting partitions containing image files on the other hand is
typically something you'd do on the server, not in the embedded system
Alain
17 Aug
17 Aug
11:44 a.m.
New subject: can cast-o-matic's "Device to be copied" be ignored or bypassed?
On 8/16/07, Tom Carpenter <tomc(a)bio.umass.edu> wrote:
I've been trying to use one system as both.
Hi Tom,
I'm not going to interrupt your interest in solving your issue with
udpcast, but I feel that udpcast doesn't really fit your needs in your
special case.
udpcast hast been built for the purpose to transfer images from a
server to one or many clients over the network via multicast (at least
that is the case if I am using udpcast).
I think you should use tools like "partimage", "dd_rescue" or
"dd" to
accomplish your task, since you just don't need the detour over the
network.
All you need is a LiveCD with the necessary tools on it like Knoppix.
I think your issue can be solved with udpcast also, but I don't get
why you should use it in that case.
Kind regards
Jens
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