Re: [sisuite-users] RE : RE : Building SystemImager on CentOS 6.2? HELP

[Bas v. d. V. <ba...@sa...>]

> You can replace the SI kernel/initrd with the SALI kernel/initrd when 
> booting SI clients, and even run your old SI .master installation 
> scripts!  Some minor tweaks to the .master script must be performed as 
> documented in 
> https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/sali/wiki/SaliUsage/UsingYourOldInstallScript. 
>   It really works!  Of course, the installed CentOS 6.x client still 
> won't boot due to systemconfigurator :-(
> 
> SALI has their own master scripts which are a lot simpler than the SI 
> scripts, but I think SALI hasn't been ported to CentOS 6.x yet because 
> 1) SALI still relies upon systemconfigurator, and 2) SALI doesn't seem 
> to support LVM.
> 

Just some comments on SALI. We use the SALI kernel/initrd  on Debian, Centos and
SUSE Linux PowerPC. The development is mostly donein a Debian enviroment, Only when
you want to make you own kernel/initrd you have to compile it from scratch.

We do not use the systemimager-server tools anymore. They are replaced by the SALI
server tools. they are noy documented yet :-(

As for the systemconfigurator tools we have replaced them partially by functions in the
`initrd` and  postinst scripts. So we get rid of the systemconfigurator tools. We have some ideas
howto replace them with other tools.

As for LVM the  SALI kernel/initrd  support it. For now there are now functions for it to hide the
complexity. So you must do the basic LVM commands in the master script.

> In conclusion, it seems to me that if you can make systemconfigurator 
> work correctly on CentOS 6.x, then SI and/or SALI should work as well 
> for installing clients that will be bootable.
> 

We have implemented a `grub2_install` functions or create a
postinst script that will do it for you


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*  Bas van der Vlies                    e-mail: ba...@sa...       *
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