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 ====== Setting up an Ubuntu Installation to work with AOE ====== ====== Setting up an Ubuntu Installation to work with AOE ======
 +(Tested on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 and Ubuntu Maverick 10.10)
  
 First make sure you have a server with some aoe server software installed. ​ If you use Linux as a server, get and install the "​vblade"​ package. First make sure you have a server with some aoe server software installed. ​ If you use Linux as a server, get and install the "​vblade"​ package.
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 Note: I don't know if the above steps are the best way to make eth0 name static, but this is what works for me. Note: I don't know if the above steps are the best way to make eth0 name static, but this is what works for me.
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 +You are now finished with editing the client. Shutdown the client now.
 +
 +===== Last step: Transfer the image to the server =====
 +
 +You could just copy the image as is, but it is even smarter to make a sparse file.  That way only actual data is copied and not the empty sectors. ​ You can do this under linux with the cp command:
 +<​code>​
 +cp --sparse=always disk.img /​media/​server-data/​disk-images/​disk.img
 +</​code>​
 +
 +If you installed to a physical machine, boot up the machine with a live linux cd, become root and do this command:
 +<​code>​
 +cp --sparse=always /dev/sda /​media/​server-data/​disk-images/​disk.img
 +</​code>​
  
 ===== Random Notes ===== ===== Random Notes =====
  
-If you don't install any proprietary video drivers, then what you got here is an image that will boot from either AOE, USB, or any internal/​external disk on any machine.+    * If you don't install any proprietary video drivers, then what you got here is an image that will boot from either AOE, USB, or any internal/​external disk on any machine. 
 +    * Since Ubuntu is Debian based, these steps should work with Debian too but I haven'​t tried it myself 
 +    * You cannot create sparse images if you copy to a windows or samba network share, use nfs/ssh/nc (netcat) instead. ​ Here is an example with nc (netcat):
  
 +Client side:
 +<​code>​
 +cat /dev/sda | nc -l -p 1234
 +</​code>​
  
 +Server side:
 +<​code>​
 +nc <​client-ip>​ 1234 | cp --sparse=always /dev/stdin disk.img
 +</​code>​
  
  
-Created by  --- //[[qiet72@gmail.com|Quinn Plattel]] 2010/09/17 07:33//+Created by  --- //Quinn Plattel 2010/09/17 07:33//

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