Systemimage on Ubuntu

[bt3wifu]

Hello,

I found this article by falko very helpful

http://www.howtoforge.com/howto_linux_systemimager

But its for Debian users, I tried to make it work with Ubuntu but with no success. Here are the steps that I tried:

1- I assumed that this can work on ubuntu so I followed the same steps, but when I tried to run si_prepareclient after answering with yes to first two questions the system aborts with error about couldn't write to a directory, I've created the directories, the error is gone but the program kept aborting.

2- I uninstalled systemimager, and removed this line:

deb http://download.systemimager.org/debian stable main

3- Installed the package (I think from Ubuntu repo) because that's the only place for repos I have in source.lst.

When I tried to run si_prepareclient, I found it does not exist.

4- I tried downloaded the debs for both server and client from here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=259&package_id=278

5- Tried to install the package using

dpkg -i systemimager-server_4.0.2_all.deb

but I got this error:

dpkg: regarding systemimager-server_4.0.2_all.deb containing systemimager-server:
systemimager-boot-i386-standard conflicts with systemimager-server (>= 3.2.4)
systemimager-server (version 4.0.2) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing systemimager-server_4.0.2_all.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing systemimager-server
Errors were encountered while processing:
systemimager-server_4.0.2_all.deb

6- I looked for the deb version of 3.2.4 but couldn't find any, there are only rpm ones.

7- The only option I have left was to compile from the source which I did, but that didn't work. (I will show the steps I took if that's needed).

Here are some information that maybe needed:

uname -m
x86_64

I really appreciate any help that will make system imager works for me. If you had some problems similar to what I have and you were able to conquer them please share your experience, if you have better steps to make it work please again share them.

Thank you,

P.S I forgot to mention I'm using Ubuntu 7.10

[bt3wifu]

In case needed also:

#df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vol1-vol1--root
xG yG zG 9% /
varrun xG yK zG 1% /var/run
varlock xG 0 zG 0% /var/lock
procbususb xM yK zM 1% /proc/bus/usb
udev xM yK zM 1% /dev
devshm xG 0 zG 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vol1-vol1--backup
xG yK zG 1% /backup
/dev/sda1 xM yM zM 11% /boot
/dev/mapper/vol1-vol1--home
xG yM zG 2% /home
/dev/mapper/vol1-vol1--var
xG yG zG 22% /var

[falko]

I think your SystemImager installation is messed up because of the many different installation methods you tried. It should work if you use the Ubuntu package right from the start, so it might be a good idea to set that system up again from scratch.