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From: Andrea R. <a....@ci...> - 2008-02-16 19:31:55
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Bas van der Vlies wrote: > On Feb 16, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Andrea Righi wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to point to our new Google Maps like tool to keep track who's >> using SystemImager around the world: >> >> http://wiki.systemimager.org/cluster-register/cluster-map.php >> >> We're really interested in this kind of feedback and user >> experiences in >> general, so if you're using SystemImager in your organization, >> company, >> laboratory, school, etc., please, consider to register your cluster on >> the map. >> >> A big thank to Bernard that provided the cluster map code used for >> OSCAR >> (http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/cluster-map). There are some small >> changes respect to the OSCAR version in order to make it more suitable >> for SystemImager. >> >> And a big thank in advance to all the users that'll register their >> clusters on the map! >> >> -Andrea >> >> PS suggestions/bugs reporting about the cluster map interface are >> welcome as well. > > > > It is a nice feature to have the cluster map. I have a remark the > interface expects one type of node for the whole cluster. At our site > we have different nodes in the same cluster: > - 1850 with 2 cpu's > - 1950 with 2 quad cores > > To make it more complicated the memory is also different in the > nodes ;-) yup! heterogeneous clusters :-P, yes, probably we could change the interface using a multi-value attribute for CPU-type (and also for memory), but I wouldn't like to complicate too much the interface or maybe users will be discouraged. For now I've relaxed the Rmax < Rpeak constraint, otherwise you cannot register the Rmax value when you use a custom label for CPU type (and IMHO your "CPU_type_1 and CPU_type_2" syntax it's simple and express very well the concept). Thanks Bas! -Andrea |
From: Bas v. d. V. <ba...@sa...> - 2008-02-16 17:43:29
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On Feb 16, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Andrea Righi wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to point to our new Google Maps like tool to keep track who's > using SystemImager around the world: > > http://wiki.systemimager.org/cluster-register/cluster-map.php > > We're really interested in this kind of feedback and user > experiences in > general, so if you're using SystemImager in your organization, > company, > laboratory, school, etc., please, consider to register your cluster on > the map. > > A big thank to Bernard that provided the cluster map code used for > OSCAR > (http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/cluster-map). There are some small > changes respect to the OSCAR version in order to make it more suitable > for SystemImager. > > And a big thank in advance to all the users that'll register their > clusters on the map! > > -Andrea > > PS suggestions/bugs reporting about the cluster map interface are > welcome as well. It is a nice feature to have the cluster map. I have a remark the interface expects one type of node for the whole cluster. At our site we have different nodes in the same cluster: - 1850 with 2 cpu's - 1950 with 2 quad cores To make it more complicated the memory is also different in the nodes ;-) -- Bas van der Vlies ba...@sa... |
From: Andrea R. <a....@ci...> - 2008-02-16 15:27:40
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Hi all, I'd like to point to our new Google Maps like tool to keep track who's using SystemImager around the world: http://wiki.systemimager.org/cluster-register/cluster-map.php We're really interested in this kind of feedback and user experiences in general, so if you're using SystemImager in your organization, company, laboratory, school, etc., please, consider to register your cluster on the map. A big thank to Bernard that provided the cluster map code used for OSCAR (http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/cluster-map). There are some small changes respect to the OSCAR version in order to make it more suitable for SystemImager. And a big thank in advance to all the users that'll register their clusters on the map! -Andrea PS suggestions/bugs reporting about the cluster map interface are welcome as well. |
From: Andrea R. <a....@ci...> - 2007-12-08 17:10:36
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The new version 4.0.2 of the stable branch is available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=259&package_id=278&release_id=560199 Official announcement: https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=762727 I would like to say a big thank to all the SystemImager users for their important feedbacks and all the other developers that contribute to improve this project day by day. Good work guys! -Andrea |
From: Bernard L. <be...@va...> - 2007-04-23 17:36:57
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This release of SystemConfigurator also compliments the new unstable release of SystemImager 3.9.0 which supports fastboot with kexec: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=688405 Cheers, Bernard On 4/23/07, Erich Focht <ef...@gm...> wrote: > Hello, > > after a long period of silence on systemconfigurator, here comes a new > release! > > SystemConfigurator has been forked for the OSCAR project (http://oscar.sf.net) > and developed within OSCAR. This release re-integrates the changes done in the > OSCAR tree and adds some new features required by the latest SystemImager. > > News: > - scconf-tool: tool for supporting query/editing of systemconfig.conf > - grub handling improvements, works now for software-mirrored disks > - scconf-bootinfo: tool required by systemimager for booting with kexec > - debian package support > - support for XEN virtual machine setups (HOSTOS option in configuration > file) > - <HOSTID>, <HOSTID+nnn> and <HOSTID-nnn> hostname dependent variable > replacement (in the APPEND block of the BOOT section). Allows some limited > host specific variables in the boot configuration. Required by Kerrighed. > - various fixes and optimizations > > Thanks to all who have contributed to this version! > > > Enjoy & post bug reports and comments to <sis...@li...> > > Erich Focht > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > sisuite-devel mailing list > sis...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel > |
From: Erich F. <ef...@gm...> - 2007-04-23 17:18:41
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Ooops... Forgot to mention the download address: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24006 BTW: debian package is included. And: If somebody downloaded the 2.2.9 release before reading the announcement, you might want to re-download. I had to fix some things related to the deb. Cheers, Erich On Monday 23 April 2007 19:12, Erich Focht wrote: > Hello, > > after a long period of silence on systemconfigurator, here comes a new > release! > > SystemConfigurator has been forked for the OSCAR project (http://oscar.sf.net) > and developed within OSCAR. This release re-integrates the changes done in the > OSCAR tree and adds some new features required by the latest SystemImager. > > News: > - scconf-tool: tool for supporting query/editing of systemconfig.conf > - grub handling improvements, works now for software-mirrored disks > - scconf-bootinfo: tool required by systemimager for booting with kexec > - debian package support > - support for XEN virtual machine setups (HOSTOS option in configuration > file) > - <HOSTID>, <HOSTID+nnn> and <HOSTID-nnn> hostname dependent variable > replacement (in the APPEND block of the BOOT section). Allows some limited > host specific variables in the boot configuration. Required by Kerrighed. > - various fixes and optimizations > > Thanks to all who have contributed to this version! > > > Enjoy & post bug reports and comments to <sis...@li...> > > Erich Focht > > |
From: Erich F. <ef...@gm...> - 2007-04-23 17:13:03
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Hello, after a long period of silence on systemconfigurator, here comes a new release! SystemConfigurator has been forked for the OSCAR project (http://oscar.sf.net) and developed within OSCAR. This release re-integrates the changes done in the OSCAR tree and adds some new features required by the latest SystemImager. News: - scconf-tool: tool for supporting query/editing of systemconfig.conf - grub handling improvements, works now for software-mirrored disks - scconf-bootinfo: tool required by systemimager for booting with kexec - debian package support - support for XEN virtual machine setups (HOSTOS option in configuration file) - <HOSTID>, <HOSTID+nnn> and <HOSTID-nnn> hostname dependent variable replacement (in the APPEND block of the BOOT section). Allows some limited host specific variables in the boot configuration. Required by Kerrighed. - various fixes and optimizations Thanks to all who have contributed to this version! Enjoy & post bug reports and comments to <sis...@li...> Erich Focht |
From: Brian E. F. <br...@th...> - 2005-04-20 21:10:14
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The SystemImager 3.4.1 source tarball has been posted. I expect 3.4.1 RPMs will follow shortly. Cheers, -Brian -- ------------------------------------------------------ Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 ------------------------------------------------------ |
From: GANI A. <gan...@ho...> - 2003-11-06 18:42:07
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From: dann f. <da...@da...> - 2003-08-28 06:17:13
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hey, I thought this was announce worthy - imagemanip provides a mechanism for allowing non-root users to modify images, and also includes a mechanism for revision management of images. This release is considered stable, but has had limited testing. ----- Forwarded message from Kees Cook <ke...@os...> ----- From: Kees Cook <ke...@os...> To: sis...@li... Organization: Open Source Development Lab Subject: [Sisuite-devel] tool: imagemanip X-BeenThere: sis...@li... X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9-sf.net List-Help: <mailto:sis...@li...?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:sis...@li...> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel>, <mailto:sis...@li...?subject=subscribe> List-Id: <sisuite-devel.lists.sourceforge.net> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel>, <mailto:sis...@li...?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=sisuite-devel> X-Original-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:21:38 -0700 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Hopefully I haven't reproduced any existing work (nothing I found handled all our requirements), but I wrote a tool to manipulate system imager images (or any "chroot"-able area). The idea is in some situations, users other than "root" want to change their images (like in a testing environment, where the testers don't have root access to the machine that houses the images). "imagemanip" will manage their root-access of the image and attempt to help maintain an audit trail of the changes made. I've got the initial cut available on: http://developer.osdl.org/kees/software/imagemanip It still needs a little more work (as seen in the "TODO" file), and more detailed documentation. The design of the tool is in the "DESIGN" file, which is probably easier to read than the terse "README". :) I'm interested in any feedback. Thanks! -- Kees Cook Open Souce Development Lab ke...@os... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sis...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel ----- End forwarded message ----- |
From: Tu T. <in...@tu...> - 2003-07-18 23:08:13
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From: dann f. <da...@de...> - 2003-06-07 23:34:32
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the systemimager part of the sis mailing list transition is complete (assuming this message goes out properly). |
From: dann f. <da...@de...> - 2003-06-07 20:55:52
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Many of you will undoubtedly receive many copies of this message - sorry for that. I am beginning the consolidation of the SIS mailing lists. As the SIS components have become more tightly integrated, the per-project lists have become confusing, and our users find it difficult to determine which forum is best to ask their question. The following lists are now deprecated: systemimager-discuss systemimager-devel systemimager-announce systeminstaller-devel systeminstaller-users Please use the corresonding sisuite lists instead: sisuite-devel sisuite-users sisuite-announce I'd originally planned to give list subscribers a week to make the transition themselves, but Brian pointed out that its just as easy to migrate everyone at once. I will therefore try to complete the migration of the systemimager lists today. Once this migration is complete, all messages to the deprecated list will be held for administrator approval. This will warn the sender of the deprecation. Messages will make it through to the appropriate sisuite list, but will require manual approval (in other words, expect a delay). |
From: Pramath R. <pr...@us...> - 2003-04-23 18:08:09
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System Configurator 2.0.7 has been released. This release has changes to Devfs.pm for device transformation to work with cciss and ida devices. System Configurator is an utility for automatically configuring, networking, and bootstrapping, of a Linux Distribution, in an Architecture agnostic way. Pramath Ramaswamy pr...@us... |
From: Pramath R. <pr...@us...> - 2003-04-15 15:10:38
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System Configurator 2.0.6 has been released. This new release fixes the bug reported (Report ID - 639247): read using a closed filehandle. System Configurator is a utility for automatically configuring, networking, and bootstrapping, of a Linux Distribution, in an Architecture agnostic way. Pramath Ramaswamy pr...@us... |
From: Sean D. <se...@da...> - 2003-01-21 19:21:01
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2.0.5 has escaped! (Mostly thanks to a long plane trip back from Indiana.) The new features are as follows: - 2.0.5 Jan 21, 2003 * Added [NETWORK] SHORTHOSTNAME (boolean) to allow for short host names to be used during install (SuSE8 and LinuxConf modules (i.e. RedHat and Mandrake) now support this * Added [BOOT] PREFERRED to allow for overriding the preferred order to try to setup boot loaders. The only use at this point is to specify "Boot::Grub" to get grub used on a system that has both grub and lilo functional * Do the right thing is a domain name is not specified in SuSE8 module As always, the interface to SC has remained consistant from previous releases, so ALL users are encouraged to upgrade. The package can be found in rpm, srpm, and tar.gz format from the usual place, http://sf.net/projects/systemconfig. -Sean --=20 _______________________________________________________________________ =09 Sean Dague se...@da... http://dague.net There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. _______________________________________________________________________ |
From: Sean D. <se...@da...> - 2003-01-17 02:34:55
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For all those interested, I will be giving a presentation "Cluster Installation with System=20 Installation Suite" at Linux World Expo 2003 in NYC, Wednesday Jan 22nd at= =20 4:30pm in the IBM Developers Den (this is on the Expo Floor). As this is= =20 part of the Expo floor, anyone with Expo only passes can attend the=20 presentation. The presentation will cover a brief overview of SIS, basics of the SIS commands, and future directions for SIS. If you are in the NY Area, or attending Linux World already, please join us. -Sean --=20 _______________________________________________________________________ =09 Sean Dague se...@da... http://dague.net There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. _______________________________________________________________________ |
From: Michael Chase-S. <mi...@ch...> - 2003-01-14 23:01:36
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Hi all, Version 1.01 of SystemInstaller is now available. You can download it at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24005 or use the System Installation Suite installer at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sisuite/sis-installer.pl to download all the SIS packages. This release of SystemInstaller contains a few minor bugfixes. Included are fixes for mkdhcpconf, and the mkautoinstallscript call in tksis. Also included are fixes for get_machine_listing when no image is given and mksimachine when no MAC is given. Mike |
From: Sean D. <se...@da...> - 2003-01-09 22:59:59
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System Configurator 2.0.4 has been released! This release adds support for the following new features: * Fixed an AUTOLOAD bug in the Time::Zone::Generic modules which was making the time zone code croak when run. (Test cases put in place so this never happens again) * Allow for '.' in release number for kernel (to allow Red Hat's 2.4.18-19.7.x notation) * Changed the hardware detection behavior again. Ordering is now back to pcibus order with grouping of like modules. A new feature for overriding the order was also added. See [HARDWARE] ORDER in the systemconfig.conf= =20 man page. All current users are recommended to upgrade to the latest version. Also note, with this version release the systemconfig-* mailing lists have been decomissioned. All future traffic will be on the sisuite mailing lists. -Sean --=20 _______________________________________________________________________ =09 Sean Dague se...@da... http://dague.net There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. _______________________________________________________________________ |
From: Brian E. F. <br...@bg...> - 2003-01-06 19:38:03
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Greetings and salutations, SystemImager(R) 3.0 is released! Installation instructions --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian based distributions: --------------------------- 1) Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list (Debian unstable users can skip this step): deb http://download.systemimager.org/debian stable main 2) Cut and paste the following commands: apt-get update apt-get install systemimager-server systemconfigurator (or apt-get install systemimager-client systemconfigurator) (or apt-get install systemimager-client systemimager-server systemconfigurator) RPM based distributions: ------------------------ 1) Download the System Installation Suite installer.pl script and make it executable: cd /tmp wget http://sisuite.org/installer.pl chmod +x installer.pl 2) Cut and paste the following command: ./installer.pl --verbose --download --install server (or ./installer.pl --verbose --download --install client) (or ./installer.pl --verbose --download --install both) 3) RPM based troubleshooting (may not be necessary): If you get dependency errors, you may also need to install the following RPMs. These are the most common, but there may be others that your system requires: rsync You can find this RPM on your Linux installation media, or at http://rsync.samba.org/ perl-DBI You can find this RPM on your Linux installation media. perl-Tk You can find this RPM here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=perl-Tk perl-XML-Simple You can find this RPM here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=perl-XML-Simple New and Improved! (aka CHANGES) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following are some of the key features or modifications that are included in the current stable release, SystemImager v3.0. * SIS (System Installation Suite) script (installer.pl) for easy installation on RPM based distributions. Debian installation is still as easy as lickety-split! SystemImager is a component of System Installation Suite, and it is recommended that you install the entire suite. The entire suite includes SystemInstaller, SystemImager, and System Configurator. * Modular kernel * SCSI, file system, other drivers compiled as modules. * Network drivers compiled in statically. * Many more network drivers compiled in. * Gigabit Ethernet support on autoinstall clients. * "Module only" drivers can be used, including network drivers. * Allows a "complete" kernel to be provided with SystemImager * Makes it possible to add support for additional file systems much more easily. * USB keyboard support on autoinstall client machines. * addclients * now allows leading zeros for client host names * recommends the use of DNS instead of /etc/hosts * Hardware auto-detection * Necessary modules are automatically loaded. * devfs is used * Eliminates the need to keep up with device files for new block devices as they get added (Hardware RAID controllers for example). * Building of initrd.gz from source code happens faster. * tmpfs * BOEL(1) now uses tmpfs as its root file system. * Size constraint of files that can be copied to the in memory file system on autoinstall clients is effectively eliminated. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt for details. * Additional filesystems now supported. The complete list now includes: * ext2 * ext3 * FAT (12, 16, and 32 bit) * JFS * reiserfs * XFS * boel_binaries tarball * A single tarball of additional binaries (that don't fit on the autoinstall media) is now pulled over to autoinstall clients once network connectivity is achieved. * This tarball contains additional kernel modules and other binaries, such as mke2fs, mkraid, mkreiserfs, and their shared libraries. * Many additional features in BOEL including: * a "vi" editor * filename completion in the shell * syslogd * Auto-install clients can send their syslog messages to the image server, or to a separate logging server. * HP Smart Array 5xxx series * Support for the HP Smart Array 5xxx series of hardware RAID controllers has been added. These devices use /dev/cciss/* device files. * Other HP Smart Array controllers * Support for HP Smart Array controllers that use /dev/ida/* device files has been added. * IA64 * IA64 support has been added. * GPT (GUID Partition Table) support has been added. * Build environment * The entire SystemImager package can be built on any distribution. It is no longer limited to a hand modified version of a specific Debian release. * Debian rocks, and I will continue to use it as *my* development environment, but this will make it much easier for packaging into other distributions, and for maintaining past releases. * Dynamic Partitioning support * Giving users the ability to specify percentages or megabytes for partition schemes. * Easily change file system types used by an image. This will an image pulled from a golden client using ext2 to be deployed on a machine as XFS, for example. * Easily change destination disks. This will allow an image pulled from a machine with IDE disks to be installed on a machine with SCSI disks. * A single image can be used across machines using different drive types and different file system types. * netbootmond and mkclientnetboot * The ability to control which PXE enabled machines boot from the network, and when they boot. This will give the system administrator control over network booting so that a machine can be made to boot from the network for an autoinstall, but not boot from the network after completing the install. * The imageserver can be configured to make PXE enabled machines automatically boot off their own hard drives after successful completion of a PXE based SystemImager install. * This allows you to plug in your brand new machines (configured to use PXE at the factory) and simply turn them on. On the first boot, the SystemImager imageserver will install them, and on subsequent boots, it will tell them to boot off their own hard drives! Certainly it's not possible to include all improvements here, but as you can see, there have been quite a few. Many of them are structural changes that will significantly improve our ability to add support to SystemImager for new file systems, hardware, and architectures. And of course you will see a number of bug fixes. Many thanks to our major sponsors who helped make this release possible by providing funding, services, and/or developer time. Please visit http://systemimager.org/sponsors/ to see a list of our sponsors. If you have other features or modifications that you would like to see, please submit a feature request (http://systemimager.org/support/) or contact <sa...@ba...> to commission development. If a feature you are interested in is already listed, please add a "ME TOO!" comment as a logged in SourceForge user. This will help us determine demand for certain features. Notes: 1. BOEL(TM) is Brian's Own Embedded Linux(TM). It is the embedded Linux used to autoinstall clients. Please feel free to forward this message on to other lists, or groups that use SystemImager and System Installation Suite (SIS). Cheers, -Brian -- --------------------------------------------------- Brian Elliott Finley http://baldguysoftware.com/ phone: 630.803.8183 http://systemimager.org/ --------------------------------------------------- |
From: Michael Chase-S. <mi...@ch...> - 2002-12-17 19:32:13
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Hi all, Version 1.00 of SystemInstaller is now available for download. This is a stable version of SystemInstaller. This release contains the necessary changes to work with the systemimager 3.0.0 architecture as well a new, simpler database. See the release notes on the project page for complete details. You can use the SIS installer to download and install the latest packages. It is available here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sisuite/sis-installer.pl Optionally, you can download the packages at the SystemInstaller page here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/systeminstaller Please report any bugs in the tracker on the project page and any questions to sis...@li... Mike |
From: Michael Chase-S. <mi...@ch...> - 2002-12-11 21:12:44
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Hi all, Version 0.96 of SystemInstaller is now available for download. This is a devel release of SystemInstaller. It includes a boatload of performance improvements and a few new features. You can use the SIS installer to download and install the latest packages. It is available here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sisuite/sis-installer.pl Optionally, you can download the packages at the SystemInstaller page here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/systeminstaller Please report any bugs in the tracker on the project page and any questions to sis...@li... Mike |
From: Sean D. <se...@da...> - 2002-11-12 03:30:23
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System Configurator 2.0.3 has been released! =46rom the Changelog: * added iSeries Hardware detection * UL 1.0 & SLES8 adjustments to SuSE8 networking module * Final YaBoot fixes (tested on Power3 SuSE 7.1 and SLES8) * Removed man 3 pages from rpm package System Configurator can be fetched from the usual place http://sf.net/projects/systemconfig. Enjoy! -Sean --=20 _______________________________________________________________________ =09 Sean Dague se...@da... http://dague.net There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. _______________________________________________________________________ |
From: Brian E. F. <br...@bg...> - 2002-11-07 20:40:04
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Greetings and salutations, SystemImager(R) unstable 2.9.4 is released. This is a SystemImager 3.0 release candidate. This should not be considered stable software, and should not be used in a production environment. We need your help in making 3.0 a successful release. If you find bugs in this software, please report them via the bug tracker link at the bottom of the support page: http://systemimager.org/support/. Be sure to include the version number (2.9.4). Installation instructions --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian based distributions: 1) Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list. Be sure to include the second slash at the end -- that's not a typo. ;-) deb http://people.debian.org/~dannf/debian/systemimager/ / 2) Cut and paste the following commands: # On your Image Server(s) apt-get update apt-get install systemimager-server systemconfigurator or # On your Golden Client(s) apt-get update apt-get install systemimager-client systemconfigurator RPM based distributions: 1) Cut and paste the following commands: cd /tmp wget http://sisuite.org/installer.pl chmod +x installer.pl ./installer.pl -v -i -t devel If you get dependency errors, you may also need to install the following RPMs. These are the most common, but there may be others that your system requires: rsync You can find this RPM on your Linux installation media, or at http://rsync.samba.org/ perl-DBI You can find this RPM on your Linux installation media. perl-Tk You can find this RPM here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=perl-Tk perl-XML-Simple You can find this RPM here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=perl-XML-Simple What to expect from this development release, and from SystemImager 3.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following are some of the key features or modifications that will be included in the next stable release, SystemImager v3.0. * SIS (System Installation Suite) script for easy installation on RPM based distributions. Debian installation is still as easy as lickety-split! SystemImager is a component of System Installation Suite, and it is recommended that you install the entire suite. The entire suite includes SystemInstaller, SystemImager, and System Configurator. * Modular kernel * SCSI, file system, other drivers compiled as modules. * Network drivers compiled in statically. * Many more network drivers compiled in. * Gigabit Ethernet support on autoinstall clients. * "Module only" drivers can be used, including network drivers. * Allows a "complete" kernel to be provided with SystemImager * Makes it possible to add support for additional file systems much more easily. * USB keyboard support on autoinstall client machines. * addclients * now allows leading zeros for client host names * recommends the use of DNS instead of /etc/hosts * Hardware auto-detection * Necessary modules are automatically loaded. * devfs is used * Eliminates the need to keep up with device files for new block devices as they get added (Hardware RAID controllers for example). * Building of initrd.gz from source code happens faster. * tmpfs * BOEL(2) now uses tmpfs as its root file system. * Size constraint of files that can be copied to the in memory file system on autoinstall clients is effectively eliminated. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt for details. * Additional filesystems now supported. The complete list now includes: * ext2 * ext3 * FAT (12, 16, and 32 bit) * JFS * reiserfs * XFS * boel_binaries tarball * A single tarball of additional binaries (that don't fit on the autoinstall media) is now pulled over to autoinstall clients once network connectivity is achieved. * This tarball contains additional kernel modules and other binaries, such as mke2fs, mkraid, mkreiserfs, and their shared libraries. * Many additional features in BOEL including: * a "vi" editor * filename completion in the shell * syslogd * Auto-install clients can send their syslog messages to the image server, or to a separate logging server. * HP Smart Array 5xxx series * Support for the HP Smart Array 5xxx series of hardware RAID controllers has been added. These devices use /dev/cciss/* device files. * Other HP Smart Array controllers * Support for HP Smart Array controllers that use /dev/ida/* device files has been added. * IA64 * IA64 support has been added. * GPT (GUID Partition Table) support has been added. * Build environment * The entire SystemImager package can be built on any distribution. It is no longer limited to a hand modified version of a specific Debian release. * Debian rocks, and I will continue to use it as *my* development environment, but this will make it much easier for packaging into other distributions, and for maintaining past releases. * Dynamic Partitioning support * Giving users the ability to specify percentages or megabytes for partition schemes. * Easily change file system types used by an image. This will an image pulled from a golden client using ext2 to be deployed on a machine as XFS, for example. * Easily change destination disks. This will allow an image pulled from a machine with IDE disks to be installed on a machine with SCSI disks. * A single image can be used across machines using different drive types and different file system types. * netbootmond and mkclientnetboot * The ability to control which PXE enabled machines boot from the network, and when they boot. This will give the system administrator control over network booting so that a machine can be made to boot from the network for an autoinstall, but not boot from the network after completing the install. * The imageserver can be configured to make PXE enabled machines automatically boot off their own hard drives after successful completion of a PXE based SystemImager install. * This allows you to plug in your brand new machines (configured to use PXE at the factory) and simply turn them on. On the first boot, the SystemImager imageserver will install them, and on subsequent boots, it will tell them to boot off their own hard drives! Certainly it's not possible to include all improvements here, but as you can see, there have been quite a few. Many of them are structural changes that will significantly improve our ability to add support to SystemImager for new file systems, hardware, and architectures. And of course you will see a number of bug fixes. The 2.0.x series happened to be a particularly buggy series. Funding levels have increased, allowing me to concentrate more time and effort on SystemImager and I'm anticipating that v3.0 will be a very stable release. If you have other features or modifications that you would like to see, please submit a feature request (http://systemimager.org/support/) or contact <sa...@ba...> to commission development. If a feature you are interested in is already listed, please add a "ME TOO!" comment as a logged in SourceForge user. This will help us determine demand for certain features. Notes: 1. All of this is subject to change prior to release. 2. BOEL(TM) is Brian's Own Embedded Linux(TM). It is the embedded Linux used to autoinstall clients. Please feel free to forward this message on to other lists, or groups that use SystemImager and System Installation Suite (SIS). Cheers, -Brian -- --------------------------------------------------- Brian Elliott Finley http://baldguysoftware.com/ phone: 214.280.8188 http://systemimager.org/ --------------------------------------------------- |
From: Sean D. <se...@da...> - 2002-10-09 14:14:10
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System Configurator 2.0.0 has been released. It contains a number of new features (listed below) and lots of bug fixes (many listed below). All users should upgrade as soon as convenient. The interface to System Configurator from System Imager remains exactly the same, so the upgrade should be completely transparent. Attached is the full release announcement: System Configurator 2.0.0 ------------------------- We are proud to announce the release of System Configurator 2.0.0. This is a major enhancement from the last stable release of 1.20. The following new features have been added since the 1.x release stream. * Time Zone Configuration=20 SC now takes a [TIME] stanza, which can be used to set time zone information on the client during installation. This means a single image can be used in multiple time zones and be configured correctly. (man systemconfig.conf for more info) * User Exits A new [USEREXIT\d] stanza was added. This allows administrators to specify an arbitrary number of user exits to be run after SC finishes configuration. (man systemconfig.conf for syntax) * Native Tools for Ramdisk Generation SC now uses native tools (mkinitrd or mk_initrd) for ramdisk configuration, instead of its own home brew solution. This means that ramdisks should look and work just as if they were=20 created by the native distribution. Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, and Mandrake are known to work with the new method. * iSeries support Support has been added for the IBM iSeries (64bit PPC) Platform. iSeries images can now be installed if using a CVS release of SystemImager and SystemInstaller. Official support from the rest of SIS will be coming shortly. * Grub support I'm now convinced we have grub working correctly in nearly all cases. Bootdev other than (hd0) is now supported, as are labels on disk devices. This code has been tested with Red Hat 7.2 and 7.3. * Better option parsing The configuration parsing routines are now far cleaner and order is now more deterministic. The following order of precedence exists: - Command line options (other than configsi and configall) override all other sources. - User specified config file (with --cfgfile option) - Standard in (with --stdin option) - Global config file (/etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf) - Command line options configsi and configall Hence --configsi on the command line will turn on --confighw, --confignet, and --runboot. Adding "confighw =3D no" to=20 /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf with turn of the --confighw option. * Gatewaydev added The GATEWAYDEV option was added to the [NETWORK] block. This allows the user to override the default, which is the device name of the first interface. This is only supported for Red Hat style network configuration. * Hardware table update The PCI ID to kernel module table has been updated to include more recent ids. Hopefully this helps everyone. * Keyboard hack It was found that SuSE SLES7 defaults the keyboard configuration to german, by setting a field in rc.config. SC now blanks that value (which defaults the keyboard to en-US.) This behavior can be turned off by adding "configkeyboard =3D no" to the systemconfig.conf file. * EFI enhancements The EFI module was made more generic, so it won't assume the EFI partition is the first partition of the first disk, and allows for boot files that are not in the toplevel directory. -Sean --=20 _______________________________________________________________________ =09 Sean Dague se...@da... http://dague.net There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. _______________________________________________________________________ |