SI_PREPARECLIENT(8) SI_PREPARECLIENT(8) NAME si_prepareclient - prepare a golden client's image for retrieval SYNOPSIS si_prepareclient --server HOSTNAME [ --version ] [ -h ] [ --help ] [ -n ] [ --no-rsyncd ] [ -q ] [ --quiet ] [ -r ] [ --unit MB | % ] [ --yes ] [ --exclude DISK ... ] [ -e DISK ... ] [ --no-uyok ] [ --my-modules ] [ --kernel FILE --modules-dir DIR ] [ --image IMAGENAME ] [ --filesystem FILESYSTEM ] [ --ssh-key FILE ] [ --authorized-keys FILE ] [ -config FILE ] DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the si_prepareclient command. si_prepareclient is a program that prepares a golden client's image for extracting by an image server. OPTIONS A summary of options is included below. Only one option is taken. --version Display version and copyright information -h, --help Show summary of options -n, --no-rsyncd Do not start the rsync daemon -q, --quiet Run silently. Return an exit status of 0 for success or a non- zero exit status for failure --server HOSTNAME Hostname or IP address of the image server --exclude DISK, -e DISK Do not gather partition information for DISK(s). The result of using this option, is that DISK(s) will not be partitioned dur- ing the auto-install process. You may prefix DISK with "/dev/", but it is not necessary, and a base directory of /dev/ will be assumed. Example: -e /dev/sdb -e sdc -e /dev/ida/c0d0 -e ida/c0d1 --unit MB | % Use the specified unit of measurement to save disk informations. If MB is specified the size of the partitions will be reported in absolute values, otherwise with '%' all the values will be reported in percentage relative to the total disk size. Default is MB. --yes Answer yes to all yes/no questions --no-uyok Don't create a UYOK (Use Your Own Kernel) boot package. This option is advantageous if you know you don't need a UYOK kernel, and you want this command to complete faster. --kernel FILE Do not detect the kernel to use with UYOK, but instead use the file specified by the argument FILE. Use this parameter only with --modules_dir and only if you use UYOK feature. --modules-dir DIR Get kernel modules to use with UYOK from the DIR repository. Use this parameter only with --kernel and only if you use UYOK feature. --image IMAGENAME Get kernel and kernel modules automatically from the image spec- ified by IMAGENAME to use with UYOK (if executed on image server). Use this parameter only if you use UYOK feature. --filesystem FILESYSTEM Force the use of FILESYSTEM to create the initial ramdisk. Use the filesystem name as specified in /proc/filesystems. Impor- tant: the filesystem must be statically compiled in the kernel used to install the clients. --ssh-key FILE Where FILE is the SSH2 id_dsa or id_rsa private key of the user account that the autoinstall client will use to connect to the imageserver. Can be used when installing with the client-driven SSH transport (where clients download the image from the image server using rsync over a SSH tunnel). WARNING: since the private key will be included into the ini- trd.img it is strongly recommended to not use it to install via network PXE over insecure networks, otherwise the initrd.img will be distributed clear (unencrypted). --authorized-keys FILE Specifies the file that contains the public keys that can be used for user authentication from the image server to the imag- ing clients. Can be used when installing with SSH transport (and the master pushes the image to the clients), or with the installation boot parameter SSHD=y, to execute commands (or open a remote shell) on the imaging clients. -config FILE Where FILE contains all the settings necessary for the client to set it's hostname and configure it's networking information without DHCP. This file is copied to /local.cfg into the UYOK initrd.img. SEE ALSO si_updateclient(8) si_mkbootpackage(8) More details can be found in the SystemImager manual. AUTHOR This manual page was compiled by dann <<dannf@debian.org>> for the De- bian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). December 8, 2002 SI_PREPARECLIENT(8)
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