Archive for January, 2008

DCC and SystemImager

I have installed Debian Sarge, and the DCC components. I’ve gotten through most of the setup instructions for DCC.I’m at step 3.4 Deploying the image on work nodes.dcc_discovernode worked well enough. But now I’m trying to get the node to acquire the boot image. And this is proving to be challenging. mkautoinstalldiskette has been renamed to si_mkautoinstalldiskette.Whats more, it’s designed for kernels that will fit on a floppy. The kernel that it is trying to copy is 1.72MB, too large to fit. This kernel again, came bundled, and I really dont know how to re-build it so that it will fit.Can I use the SystemImager tools to rebuild it and make it smaller?That’s what is next…