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Posted to dev@vcl.apache.org by Aaron Peeler <aa...@ncsu.edu> on 2010/11/17 21:05:24 UTC

Re: xCAT 2.x image capture and restore

Hi John,

Josh had done some work on this for our NCSU install. Here are his 
notes, it also includes the ram disk, root image and kernel modules.
https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage-ng-to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html

Aaron

On 11/17/10 2:52 PM, John Ma wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have xCAT 2.5 installed as the provision tool for VCL 2.2, however 
> xCAT 2.5, out of box, doesn't seem able to capture disk image.
>
> How to make xCAT 2.x able to handle disk images? Do I need to create 
> my own netboot image customized with partimage, partimage-ng or 
> systemimager?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Ma
> sys admin
> Marist College
> Poughkeepsie, NY 

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Aaron Peeler
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