Ubuntu 8.04 and systemimager

[cortexx]

Ok I have been trying to setup systemimager on Ubuntu 8.04 for about a week using info off the internet. Needless to say Im pretty patient but cannot get it installed leave alone working .

Is there any guide that works that would make this easier ? I have been through 12 server installs after experimenting with various different deb,tar,gz files. i have had dependencies missing and not installing properly , I have forced installs of deb files in an effort to give the stupid program its dependencies and ended up with trashed ubuntu server installs and had to start from scratch. :mad:

Any chance of a Perfect systemimage server walkthough for people like me ? ( judging from the web there are plenty of us :O ) :o

I'd even change to a different distro to get it working , however i do need to backup feisty fawn servers to it so ubuntu was the natural choice for the systemimager server ! :rolleyes:

thanks

-cort

[falko]

Is this what you're looking for?
http://www.howtoforge.com/howto_linux_systemimager

[cortexx]

I already tried it , this is what i get :-

Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing gimp-svg (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_feisty-security_universe_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

[cortexx]

so i fixed that then i tried the install again and it failed on dependencies , so i forced install on dependantcies and tried install again.

message :-


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
systemimager-server: Depends: libappconfig-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxml-parser-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxml-simple-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mkisofs but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mtools but it is not going to be installed
Depends: systemconfigurator (>= 2.0.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: systemimager-boot-i386-standard but it is not going to be installed or
systemimager-boot-ia64-standard but it is not going to be installed
Depends: systemimager-common (= 3.6.2-2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).


running apt-get -f install then gets me this :-

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
genisoimage libappconfig-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl
libnet-netmask-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl libxml-libxml-common-perl libxml-libxml-perl
libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-sax-perl libxml-simple-perl mkisofs
mtools systemconfigurator systemimager-boot-i386-standard systemimager-common
systemimager-server
Suggested packages:
wodim cdrkit-doc libio-socket-ssl-perl floppyd
Recommended packages:
libmailtools-perl libhtml-format-perl dhcp3-server dhcp syslinux
The following NEW packages will be installed:
genisoimage libappconfig-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl
libnet-netmask-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl libxml-libxml-common-perl libxml-libxml-perl
libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-parser-perl libxml-sax-perl libxml-simple-perl mkisofs
mtools systemconfigurator systemimager-boot-i386-standard systemimager-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
systemimager-server
1 upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 774kB/18.9MB of archives.
After unpacking 31.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
liburi-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl systemimager-boot-i386-standard
systemimager-server systemimager-common
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Err http://download.systemimager.org stable/main liburi-perl 1.35-2
404 Not Found
Err http://download.systemimager.org stable/main libhtml-tagset-perl 3.10-2
404 Not Found
Err http://download.systemimager.org stable/main libhtml-tree-perl 3.19.01-2
404 Not Found
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main libappconfig-perl 1.56-2 [88.6kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main libwww-perl 5.805-1 [361kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main libxml-libxml-common-perl 0.13-5 [14.0kB]
Fetched 3B in 0s (9B/s)
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/appconfig/libappconfig-perl_1.56-2_all.deb Size mismatch
Failed to fetch http://download.systemimager.org/debian/pool/main/libu/liburi-perl/liburi-perl_1.35-2_all.deb 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://download.systemimager.org/debian/pool/main/libh/libhtml-tagset-perl/libhtml-tagset-perl_3.10-2_all.deb 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://download.systemimager.org/debian/pool/main/libh/libhtml-tree-perl/libhtml-tree-perl_3.19.01-2_all.deb 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libw/libwww-perl/libwww-perl_5.805-1_all.deb Size mismatch
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libxml-libxml-common-perl/libxml-libxml-common-perl_0.13-5_i386.deb Size mismatch
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?


running the install now gets me :-




root@phobos:~# apt-get install systemimager-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
systemimager-server: Depends: libappconfig-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxml-parser-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxml-simple-perl but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mkisofs but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mtools but it is not going to be installed
Depends: systemconfigurator (>= 2.0.1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: systemimager-boot-i386-standard but it is not going to be installed or
systemimager-boot-ia64-standard but it is not going to be installed
Depends: systemimager-common (= 3.6.2-2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
root@phobos:~#


this is what happened last time i used the walk through that you have posted , it keeps going around in circles .

:confused:

[cortexx]

So after a bit more jerking around we decided to do the entire setup just as you had done on debian.

So we spent the afternoon downloading and installing debian on the server , this is far as we got using the systemimager walkthrough install :-

phobos:~# vi /etc/apt/sources.list
phobos:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org etch Release.gpg [386B]
Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch Release
Ign http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages
Get:2 http://download.systemimager.org stable Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Sources
Get:3 http://download.systemimager.org stable Release [38.3kB]
Get:4 http://download.systemimager.org stable/main Packages [2249B]
Get:5 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources
Fetched 40.8kB in 2s (14.9kB/s)
Failed to fetch http://download.systemimager.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz MD5Sum mismatch
Reading package lists... Done
W: Conflicting distribution: http://download.systemimager.org stable Release (expected stable but got sid)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://download.systemimager.org stable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/download.systemimager.org_debian_dists_stable_main _binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://download.systemimager.org stable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/download.systemimager.org_debian_dists_stable_main _binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.


any idea where we go from here ? :mad:

Seems nothing wants to cooperate :(

[falko]

I think I'll write new SystemImager tutorials. :)

[cortexx]

That would be very appreciated .

Anything that prevents more fist marks in the front of the server rack and the broken distro cd's on the floor in the server room would be very welcome.

:D

~cort

[falko]

Here you go: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-back-up-an-ubuntu-8.10-system-with-systemimager :)