From: Clifton M. <cmo...@gm...> - 2014-01-31 20:47:09
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My name is Clifton Moore, and I am a beginning Linux admin for my company. I have experience with the mass deployment of Windows images to new machines, and because of that my company asked that I attempt to do the same for our Linux lab running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4. After a bit of research, I settled on using your SystemImager software and for most of its use I have run into few issues. I was able to create an image from a golden client machine and store the image on a backup server that I intend on using as the image server, but I have run into a couple of issues I would hope you could help resolve: 1) I've created a local.cfg file, but simply burning it and the iso created from the si_mkinstallcd command to a CD doesn't make the CD a viable boot medium. I've found that I have to add the .iso extension onto the iso and then I am able to make a proper boot CD, but seemingly without the local.cfg file incorporated. 2) When using the boot disk, I receive a kernel panic. It goes through a process where it checks the various hardware drivers on the system before going into a kernel panic, and unfortunately I am unable to scroll up to see just which "flavor" of panic is causing all the trouble. 3) In the local.cfg file, if I want to image multiple machines each with a different host name, how would I do that? Right now I have the hostname of the machine I'm using to test the whole process, but once I get everything running I intend on attempting the mass imaging of close to two dozen computers. Any assistance you can provide in this regard would be greatly appreciated, and if this is not the proper medium for these questions than I would ask that I be directed accordingly. Thank you for your time and consideration, -Cliff Moore |