Dear all, I follow the guideline in http://www.howtoforge.com/howto_linux_systemimager to create an image using Systemimager. When I run si_prepareclient --server myserver and choose YES for both questions, then failed with the following output: Using "sfdisk" to gather information about disk: /dev/sda start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,0,1) start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1) start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1) start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1) start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,7) Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemI mager/Common.pm line 1042, <FH_IN> line 8. Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/scsi/libata.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/scsi/ata_piix.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/net/sk98lin/sk98lin.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/core/snd-page-alloc.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/core/snd.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/core/snd-timer.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/core/snd-pcm.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/core/oss/snd-mixer-oss.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/core/oss/snd-pcm-oss.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq-device.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq-midi-event. ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq-dummy.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-codec.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/net/ipv6/ipv6.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/crypto/md5.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/acpi/button.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/acpi/video.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/net/bluetooth/l2cap.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/rfcomm.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/fs/autofs4/autofs4.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/parport/parport.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/char/lp.ko Adding: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.ko >>> Filesystem for new initrd: ext2 >>> Creating new initrd from: /tmp/.systemimager.4 >>> New initrd mount point: /tmp/.systemimager.5 >>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/etc/systemimager/boot/initrd bs=1024 count=23680 23680+0 records in 23680+0 records out >>> mke2fs -b 1024 -m 0 -N 640 -F /etc/systemimager/boot/initrd mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) /etc/systemimager/boot/initrd: Permission denied while setting up superblock[/COLOR] >>> rm -fr /tmp/.systemimager.4 /tmp/.systemimager.5 FAILED: mke2fs -b 1024 -m 0 -N 640 -F /etc/systemimager/boot/initrd at /usr/lib/ systemimager/perl/SystemImager/UseYourOwnKernel.pm line 723. I install systemimager-server 3.6.3-2 in my Debian 3.1 and systemimager-client 3.6.3-1 in Fedora Core 4. Any help would be very appreciated. Cuongtim
There seems to be something wrong with your partitions. How did you partition your hard drive? What's in /etc/fstab?
Dear Falko, Here is the display of /etc/fstab: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 Cuongtim
Looks ok. I guess then that the problem is caused by using different SystemImager versions on the server and the client.
