From: Michael D. S. I. <mi...@ku...> - 2010-10-13 15:25:14
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The basic process to do this is to extract the lines from the g4l script that have the compress and options you uses, and then set the variables. Example. Say you want to automate a restore of an image from a server using lzop compress and a non-ntfsclone backup cat g4l30o8 | grep ncftpget | grep lzop | grep -v ntfsclone Provides. xcmd="(ncftpget $ncftpopt $useridpass -c -V -d /tmp/out $server "$ftppath/$netimagename" 2>>$ncftpstat $AESPIPEd | lzop -d -c -| jetcat- mod -f 5000 -p $writesize 2>$progout |dd bs=1M of=$rest 2>/dev/null) &" one could convert that to a run="command" on the kernel line. All the messages have timeout values, and then it would run. run="ncftpget $ncftpopt $useridpass -c -V -d /tmp/out $server "$ftppath/$netimagename" 2>>$ncftpstat $AESPIPEd | lzop -d -c -| jetcat- mod -f 5000 -p $writesize 2>$progout |dd bs=1M of=$rest 2>/dev/null && reboot " On 13 Oct 2010 at 9:27, Philip Aylesworth wrote: Date sent: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:27:02 -0400 From: Philip Aylesworth <ph...@ay...> To: Andy Gardner <thf...@ya...> Copies to: g4l...@li... Subject: Re: [G4l-general] Using G4L as a Live CD to install my own software > Andy, > > This should be possible. A few years ago I poked around with > customizing 4GL so it would not ask any questions and just install an > image from a file server when it booted. After spending a few hours on > it I did not get it working, and since I was not the one doing the > actual work, I lost interest. But it seemed that it should have > worked. I was just doing something wrong. Adding the image to the disk > should not be a problem, either. > > If I were doing it now, I would experiment with a USB hard drive. That > way you don't have to burn a disk every time you want to try it. The > boot process is different, though, but you could test the scripts. > > If you succeed, a how-to would really be appreciated! > > Phil. > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Andy Gardner <thf...@ya...> wrote: > > I would like to have a disk(DVD) that has G4L and my software image on and > > use G4L to install my image automatically by inserting the disk into a > > machine and effectively saying "Go". Is it possible to do this and set G4L > > with preconfigured parameters so that the software is automatically > > installed when someone inserts the disk into a Linux machine? > > Currently under development I use G4L to back up and restore the image to > > Linux machines using it with FTP to our fileserver. But now I want to be > > able to take the disk out into the field and do a fresh installation from a > > totally self-contained disk as obviously my fileserver is not going to be > > available. > > Any help or advice would be gratefully accepted. > > thanks > > Andy > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports > > standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. > > Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great > > experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb > > _______________________________________________ > > G4l-general mailing list > > G4l...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4l-general > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports > standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. > Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great > experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb > _______________________________________________ > G4l-general mailing list > G4l...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4l-general +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mi...@ku... mailto:mse...@gm... http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 10029286.088131 | EINSTEIN 4690389.130851 ROSETTA 2315745.181633 | ABC 2851909.139403 |