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From: <da...@da...> - 2002-10-08 03:19:36
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Greetings and salutations,
SystemImager(R) unstable 2.9.3 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.
Official "testers" should test this release and send feedback to
<sis...@li...>. For others who test this
release, please send a quick "it worked on my box" message to
the same list.
Installation instructions
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
RPM based distributions, 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:
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
Debian users can add the following to their sources.list:
deb http://people.debian.org/~dannf/debian/systemimager /
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 is Brian's Own Embedded Linux. 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 (and, er, dannf, i guess)
|
|
From: Brian F. <bri...@ba...> - 2002-09-28 16:13:49
|
Greetings and salutations,
SystemImager(R) unstable 2.9.2 is released. This is a development release
leading up to the 3.0 release. This should not be considered stable
software, and should not be used in a production environment.
Official "testers" should test this release and send feedback to
<sis...@li...>. For others who test this
release, please send a quick "it worked on my box" message to
the same list.
Installation instructions
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
RPM based distributions, 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:
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 is Brian's Own Embedded Linux. 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...> - 2002-09-12 14:31:51
|
System Configurator 1.9.6 has been released. This includes a bug fix for a critical brokeness in the Lilo.pm module (so lilo wouldn't work at all). It also includes a shiney new iSeries.pm module, which has been tested in bringing up an iSeries linux this week. And dannf enhanced the EFI.pm module to do things a bit smarter when not provided with the bootdev location. As always, you can get the latest and greatest at 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...> - 2002-06-18 20:38:43
|
This should have gone out a while back, but I was having mail issues. There
is currently also a 1.9.4 available on the sourceforge site.
-Sean
----- Forwarded message from Sean Dague <se...@da...> -----
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:09:47 -0400
From: Sean Dague <se...@da...>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i
To: sis...@li...
Subject: System Configurator 1.9.3 Released
Ug. I think this still hasn't gone through. Stupid SF.
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:19:26 -0400
From: Sean Dague <se...@da...>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i
To: sys...@li...,
sys...@li...
Subject: System Configurator 1.9.3 Released
Hey all,
I haven't been so good about keeping these lists up to date with System
Configurator announcements of late, sorry for that.
Work is steadily happening towards the 2.0.0 release (yes, I'm changing
numbering schemes again, sorry about that). The major goals for 2.0.0 is
much better SuSE support, Time Zone support, reworked ramdisk generation,
userexits, and whatever bug fixes can make it in.
To this end I have created a development release stream called 1.9.x which
will eventually stabalize to 2.0.0. These releases are definitely useable
(for the most part), though I'll not guaruntee that every feature works all
the time in them (they are development releases after all.)
What follows is the CHANGELOG since the last stable generally available=20
release, 1.20. Enjoy.
- 1.9.3 June 11, 2002
Minor Bug Update
Bugs Fixed:
* Module detection doesn't blow up on ext2 root for SuSE
* Initrd builds properly on SuSE during install
Features:
* Added Debian Time Zone support
- 1.9.2 June 11, 2002
Major Feature Update
Features:
* Finished SuSE kernel module detection
* Ramdisks now built for SuSE 7.x and 8.0
* TimeZone config files built for Red Hat (and cousins) and
SuSE
(Debian still coming)=20
- 1.9.1 June 5, 2002
First development release on road to 2.0.0 (sorry for changing
numbering schemes again)
Major Feature Update
Features:
* Added UserExit capabilities
* Added SuSE 8.x network support
* Added SuSE kernel module detection (incomplete)
* Hardware Table refresh
=20
Known Bugs:
* Ramdisks don't get built for SuSE at all yet=20
* Ramdisks don't get built for any distro without
a mkinitrd script
* SuSEconfig is run way too many times (need a generic
way to run this at the end)
* TimeZone config files aren't written out properly
* Docs are out of date for things like UserExit
* Grub still has some issues that need to be addressed for
Red Hat 7.3
Use of this version of SC is only suggested for Red Hat, Mandrake,
Conectiva and Debian users. All other users should stay with the
last stable version.
- 1.25 April 3, 2002 (This was only released into the OSCAR CVS tree)
Minor Feature Update
Features:=20
* Changed the way Initial Ramdisk generation was done
(not complete yet, but works for Debian and Red Hat)
* Added Support for setting up Timezones (incomplete)
--=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.
_______________________________________________________________________
----- End forwarded message -----
--=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...> - 2002-06-18 20:32:13
|
Please let this go through
----- Forwarded message from Sean Dague <se...@da...> -----
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:09:47 -0400
From: Sean Dague <se...@da...>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i
To: sis...@li...
Subject: System Configurator 1.9.3 Released
Ug. I think this still hasn't gone through. Stupid SF.
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:19:26 -0400
From: Sean Dague <se...@da...>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i
To: sys...@li...,
sys...@li...
Subject: System Configurator 1.9.3 Released
Hey all,
I haven't been so good about keeping these lists up to date with System
Configurator announcements of late, sorry for that.
Work is steadily happening towards the 2.0.0 release (yes, I'm changing
numbering schemes again, sorry about that). The major goals for 2.0.0 is
much better SuSE support, Time Zone support, reworked ramdisk generation,
userexits, and whatever bug fixes can make it in.
To this end I have created a development release stream called 1.9.x which
will eventually stabalize to 2.0.0. These releases are definitely useable
(for the most part), though I'll not guaruntee that every feature works all
the time in them (they are development releases after all.)
What follows is the CHANGELOG since the last stable generally available=20
release, 1.20. Enjoy.
- 1.9.3 June 11, 2002
Minor Bug Update
Bugs Fixed:
* Module detection doesn't blow up on ext2 root for SuSE
* Initrd builds properly on SuSE during install
Features:
* Added Debian Time Zone support
- 1.9.2 June 11, 2002
Major Feature Update
Features:
* Finished SuSE kernel module detection
* Ramdisks now built for SuSE 7.x and 8.0
* TimeZone config files built for Red Hat (and cousins) and
SuSE
(Debian still coming)=20
- 1.9.1 June 5, 2002
First development release on road to 2.0.0 (sorry for changing
numbering schemes again)
Major Feature Update
Features:
* Added UserExit capabilities
* Added SuSE 8.x network support
* Added SuSE kernel module detection (incomplete)
* Hardware Table refresh
=20
Known Bugs:
* Ramdisks don't get built for SuSE at all yet=20
* Ramdisks don't get built for any distro without
a mkinitrd script
* SuSEconfig is run way too many times (need a generic
way to run this at the end)
* TimeZone config files aren't written out properly
* Docs are out of date for things like UserExit
* Grub still has some issues that need to be addressed for
Red Hat 7.3
Use of this version of SC is only suggested for Red Hat, Mandrake,
Conectiva and Debian users. All other users should stay with the
last stable version.
- 1.25 April 3, 2002 (This was only released into the OSCAR CVS tree)
Minor Feature Update
Features:=20
* Changed the way Initial Ramdisk generation was done
(not complete yet, but works for Debian and Red Hat)
* Added Support for setting up Timezones (incomplete)
--=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.
_______________________________________________________________________
----- End forwarded message -----
--=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...> - 2002-05-10 15:17:39
|
SystemInstaller version 0.90 is now available for download at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24005&release_id=88913 It includes the following changes: Features: -New generic staged rpm installation using conf files -Support for fetching an image from a running client -Display client/adapter properties in tksis -Allow update of client definitions from tksis. Fixes: -Add nfs filesystems to exclude list -Itanium disk partitioning fix -Lilo label length limit still could be long -DHCP 3.0 support in generated dhcpd.conf -Allow cache file to be in any directory -Fixes to some error checks -Default domain in tksis panel -Add /dev/null device during image build Enjoy! Mike |
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From: Michael Chase-S. <mc...@us...> - 2002-03-28 19:35:21
|
Hello all, Version 0.80 of SystemInstaller is now available. Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/systeminstaller/ to download. This version includes the following: Features: -Made --path optional on mksiimage -Removed --host from mksiimage -Added dynamic footprinting to PackageBest -Added support for TurboLinux -Can now specify config file items on the command line -Made the PackageBest stuff semi-seperate Fixes: -Make sure systemconfigurator is in package list -Check filename in mksidisk -Cleaned up the kernel selection code -Cleaned up the systemconfig.conf setup -Added disk type to buildimage -Added --version to commands -Restrict length of boot loader labels |
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From: Sean D. <se...@da...> - 2002-03-18 22:01:06
|
System Configurator 1.20 escaped today leaving a trail of programmers in its wake. The main features of 1.20 are a newly refreshed pci hardware table, which should detect and build proper initial ramdisks for even the newest scsi controlers out there, as well as the addition of the VGA field in the [BOOT] section. More information can be found in the man pages. I will also be depricating the systemconfig-announce list in favor of the sisuite-announce list from here on, as the traffice on systemconfig-announce doesn't seem to warrent a seperate list. -Sean --=20 _______________________________________________________________________ =09 Sean Dague se...@da... http://dague.net/sean _______________________________________________________________________ |
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