14 Dec
2005
14 Dec
'05
4:25 p.m.
Am Montag, den 12.12.2005, 23:32 +1000 schrieb Michael D. Setzer II:
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On 12 Dec 2005 at 13:36, Thomas Kuehling wrote:
Subject: Re: [Udpcast] Problems with udpcast in combination with a
fileserver
From: Thomas Kuehling <thomas.kuehling(a)mapsolute.com>
Send reply to: thomas.kuehling(a)mapsolute.com
To: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes(a)kuentos.guam.net>
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Date sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:36:38 +0100
*strike*
I got it running in my lab. I created an image with g4l via ftp and
reimaged it on the other notebook via udp-reciever. Also i got the
headless-configuration with my own initrd running, but i've got one
question about this initrd. How could i add own kernel-modules in the
initrd and kernel of udp-reciever?
Hi Michael,
Am Montag, den 12.12.2005, 22:22 +1000 schrieb Michael D. Setzer II:
With my g4l program, it boots from the CD with kernel 2.6.14.3, and
some 2.6.14.2. I have statically compiled versions of udp-sender
and udp-reciever on the CD. I've used the g4l to create a lzop
compressed image on a fedora system, and then using udp-sender
on that machine, and udp-reciever on the workstations done a
clone. Most of the time, I reimage one machine, and do the system
updates, and then use udpcast diskette to put machine with the use
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Storing images on an ext3 partition should not make a difference
from what I can tell. I have written the last thru versions of g4l, and it
does exactly that. It uses dd with compression and then ftping it to
the server. I've even used the images created with g4l with udpcast.
I do note that when restoring an image to different drive, it has
problems if the heads / sector ratio is not exactly the sime. The
layout of the server that stores the image doesn't matter.
I generally use g4l to create my images, and store them on a system
with two 250GB drives, but then use udpcast to image the one
system to the other 19 machines in the lab.
do i understand you correct? You store an image of a complete system via
ghost, but you clone all machines via udpcast? My problem is, that i'll
get the next days 40 blades wich i have to install and udpcast seems to
be the best way.
Perhaps i'll install one blade and clone the other machines from this
one. But i fearing the controller in this machine. I read there is a
Pear4/im raid controller included and as i saw, this modul is not yet
included in the udpcast version :-(
Not sure, but the kernel on the g4l cd might handle that controller,
but you would have to see it. If it does work with the controller, you
could use the udp-sender and udp-reciever to send it. G4L might
work, but it would require a lot more time doing an image via the ftp
since it would require much more time than using multi-cast.
On 12 Dec 2005 at 13:07, Thomas Kuehling wrote:
Subject: Re: [Udpcast] Problems with udpcast in combination with a fileserver
From: Thomas Kuehling <thomas.kuehling(a)mapsolute.com>
To: D Teed <dteed(a)artistic.ca>
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Date sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:07:05 +0100
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Thomas Kühling
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Mapsolute Gmbh - Techn. Administration - TK2325-RIPE
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Phone: +49 6196 777 56 413 - Fax: +49 6196 777 56 100
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Hi Teed,
Am Montag, den 12.12.2005, 07:51 -0400 schrieb D Teed:
> Are the disk geometries the same on the master and target notebooks?
> Is lilo or grub or other used as the boot loader?
not really. On the fileserver i am using a 300 GB SATA Maxtor HDD and in
the Notebooks i've got a normal 60 GB HDD. I prefer to store several
images on the 300 GB HDD. As i read in the advanced doku, the option
--nosync for the udpreciever could help. I am just testing this.
Therefore i tested directly to sync from one notebook to the other one
and this worked without any problems. I think the problem is the storing
of images on a normal ext3-partition.
>
> If it is a problem from udpcast, I'd guess it has something to
> do with the first few bytes on the data. I saw a problem
> like this before where we could not boot an IBM notebook
> recovery partition. In our case the broadcom 5702 ethernet driver on
> the imaging server had a bug which went away in a 2.6.5 kernel
> driver. TCP/IP was reliable, but the driver bug was specific to
> UDP multicast. Even the Windows drivers for that Broadcom
> device had problems (at the time) immediately after DHCP connect.
> The other possible flaw that could go wrong is a bug
> in the ethernet driver on one of the notebook clients.
>
> Check the changelogs at kernel.org for hints there may be
> bug fixes for one of the ethernet devices you use.
>
> You can test to see if the images are the same on upload by
> using cmp to compare the image files. Upload twice and
> compare. Upload, image, and upload from the target and
> compare.
>
> This only works with gzip, as I learned, that lzop stores
> a timestamp inside the file.
For testing-szenario i used only raw without any compression.
> --Donald Teed
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Thomas Kuehling wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > i've got a strange problem with udpcast. If i store the files on an
> > ext3-partition on a fileserver via udp-reciever -f foo.image and clone
> > it on the other notebook, i am not able to boot the new system on it.
> > When i look on the hdd, i see the several partitions, but no partition
> > types.
> >
> > What's my fault? I am getting more and more confused. Please help me.
> >
> > Mit freundlichen GrüÃ"Yen
> > Thomas Kühling
> >
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> > Mapsolute Gmbh - Techn. Administration - TK2325-RIPE
> > Düsseldorfer StraÃ"Ye 40a - 65760 Eschborn/Frankfurt a.M. - Germany
> > Phone: +49 6196 777 56 413 - Fax: +49 6196 777 56 100
> > E-Mail: thomas.kuehling(a)mapsolute.com - web: http://www.mapsolute.com
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Thomas Kühling
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