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Problem: You want to use SystemImager
to keep and replicate your customized SME 5.6 Server Solution: Follow this Howto |
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STEP 1: Setup a “Server” to accommodate the space needed by the image/s.
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1. Setup a Base install of E-Smith 5.6 or 6.0 on a HDD with enough space to hold the images. 2. Get access to the command line through “Putty” on
a windows client or ssh on a Linux box on the same network. 3. Make sure that this server is able to connect to the Internet. |
STEP
2: Download the installer script to the above server’s /tmp
[root@e-smith root]# cd /tmp [root@e-smith root]# wget http://sisuite.org/install [root@e-smith root]# chmod +x install |
STEP 3: Download and install this RPM (perl-XML-Simple-1.08_01-3.i386.rpm)
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[root@e-smith
root]# from http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1084074/com/perl-XML-Simple-1.08_01-3.i386.rpm.html
or here Then |
STEP 4: Install the server software
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[root@e-smith-server tmp]# ./install --verbose systemconfigurator [root@e-smith-server tmp]# ./install --verbose systemimager-server |
STEP 5: Install the client software on the client(or other box) to be cloned
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[root@e-smith-client tmp]# ./install –verbose
systemconfigurator [root@e-smith-client tmp]# ./install --verbose systemimager-client |
STEP
6: Prepare the (Golden)client box to be imaged
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[root@e-smith-client tmp]# prepareclient |
STEP 7:
Aquire the image from the client to the server
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[root@e-smith-server tmp]# getimage --golden-client your.client.ip –image sme56up4base |
STEP 8: Create a boot floppy or boot CD
to autoinstall the client
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[root@e-smith-server tmp]#
mkautoinstalldiskette or [root@e-smith-server tmp]# mkautoinstallcd |
STEP 9: Add the hostnames to the “dhcp server”
including the mac addresses of each box to be cloned
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The “server” which if it also functions as the dhcp server for your network needs to recognize each NIC card from its mac address so it can tie the given hostname to that cloned box. These hostnames must match the ones set out when the “getimage” utility ran the “add-clients”. |
Notes:
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For all the(gory) details, see here. http://www.systemimager.org/doc/html/c310.html |