Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Internal/ImageInstall


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Jul 21, 2006, 9:04:51 PM (18 years ago)
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ssugrim
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    88once at the console, the resting place of the image was mounted.
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    10 step 3 -- mount -o nolock repository2:/export/orbit/image/tmp /mnt
    11              
     10step 3 --
     11{{{
     12mount -o nolock repository2:/export/orbit/image/tmp /mnt
     13}}}
    1214
    13 We need the nolock option because of some NFS bug.
    14 Repository2:yadayada is the NFS destination (where the image will be dumped)
    15 /mnt is my mount point (could be anything really)
     15''We need the nolock option because of some NFS bug.''[[BR]]
     16''Repository2:yadayada is the NFS destination (where the image will be dumped)''[[BR]]
     17''/mnt is my mount point (could be anything really)''[[BR]]
    1618
    1719So now that I have some place to put the image file, I can create it with the imagezip utility (should live in /bin on the image).
    1820
    19 step 4 -- imagezip /dev/hda - > /mnt/orbit-pc1...
     21step 4 --
     22{{{
     23imagezip /dev/hda - > /mnt/orbit-pc1...
     24}}}
    2025
    21 imagezip is part of the firsbee suite, it is dumb and will just start dumping to std out. To use it you need to redirect that to a file or some such place. (unix pipe + ssh?)
    22 
    23 /dev/hda is my source (where I want the image to come from)
    24 the source is followed by a - for some reason I don't know.
    25 
    26 > is the unix redirect
    27 
    28 and /mnt/orbit-pc1... is my file name (note that I put it on the nfs mounted directory, since the image has no place / space to hold any thing. And even if it did, how would you get at it?)
     26''   imagezip is part of the firsbee suite, it is dumb and will just start dumping to std out. To use it you need to redirect that to a file or some such place. (unix pipe + ssh?)'' [[BR]]
     27''   /dev/hda is my source (where I want the image to come from)'' [[BR]]
     28''   the source is followed by a - for some reason I don't know.''[[BR]]
     29''   > is the unix redirect''
     30''   and /mnt/orbit-pc1... is my file name (note that I put it on the nfs mounted directory, since the image has no place / space to hold any thing. And even if it did, how would you get at it?)''
    2931
    3032Assuming that all went well, you should have a file sitting somewhere on some box, that you can get at later.