Building Instructions

Here some instructions to build SALI from source. To checkout the source:

• svn ​https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/sali/svn/trunk sali_trunk

Our building environment is:

• Debian squeeze (amd64)
• SLES 11 (IBM PowerPC)

See here an overview of the software packages used by Sali.

Debian

• cd sali_trunk
• Now install the require debian packages:

  ./tools/debian_packages.sh
  

• ./configure
• The following command will fetch. patch, configure and build the packages. The packages will be fetch from ftp.sara.nl. It will take some time to finish this process:

  make build
  

• Now build a tarball. This can be easily copied to your installation host

  make tarball
  

• On our debian amd64 environment and SALI version 1.5.0. The following tarball is being produced:

  sali-x86_64-1.5.0.tar.gz
  

SLES

Same as Debian build. Only you have to execute the following command to install the required packages:

tools/sles_packages.sh 

Creating a bootable CD/DVD/usb

During these steps we assume you have unpacked the sali-x86_64-1.5.7.tar.gz in /tmp. So we have all SALI files under /tmp/sali-1.5.7.

Generate the iso hybrid file

cd /tmp/sali-1.5.7
./bootdisk/sali_create_bootdisk
CREATING A SALI ISO IMAGE

I: -input-charset not specified, using iso-8859-1 (detected in locale settings)
Using ISOLI000.SVN;1 for  /tmp/sali-1.5.7/bootdisk/isolinux/.svn/text-base/isolinux.cfg.svn-base (isolinux.bin.svn-base)
Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
 34.11% done, estimate finish Fri Feb  1 16:13:42 2013
 68.09% done, estimate finish Fri Feb  1 16:13:42 2013
Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 22528
Path table size(bytes): 170
Max brk space used 1a000
14689 extents written (28 MB)


CONVERTING IMAGE TO HYBRID IMAGE done

ISO IMAGE HAS BEEN STORED TO
	/tmp/sali-1.5.7/sali-x86_64--hybrid.iso

The created iso can be burned by your favorite software to a cd. Or you can use the dd utility to make a bootable USB disk

dd if=/tmp/sali-1.5.7/sali-x86_64--hybrid.iso of=/tmp/sdb bs=8192k

Assuming your USB disk is not mounted and is available at /dev/sdb

Add custom boot entries to the cd

Adjust the file isolinux/isolinux.cfg to your needs to start installation via rsync or bittorrent. Some examples herebelow to generate a custom bootable SALI cd/dvd/usb.

If you open the isolinux/isolinux.cfg you can add your custom entries between the comment lines 'BEGIN HERE' and 'END HERE'

As an example we choose for the image amd64_squeeze_lisa

Installation via rsync:

label install_lisa_squeeze
  menu label Install LISA squeeze via rsync
  kernel /kernel/kernel
  append /images/initrd.img PROTOCOL=rsync GRUB2=yes SCRIPTNAME=amd64_squeeze_lisa VERBOSE_LEVEL=2 rw

Installation via bittorrent

label install_lisa_squeeze_torrent
  menu label Install LISA squeeze via bittorrent
  kernel /kernel/kernel
  append /images/initrd.img PROTOCOL=bittorrent GRUB2=yes SCRIPTNAME=amd64_squeeze_lisa VERBOSE_LEVEL=2 rw

NOTE 1

If you dont have your dhcp configured with sali-imageserver option, you

must add IMAGESERVER=<ip of your image server> on the append line.

NOTE 2

If the name of the image is different from the scriptname add variable

IMAGENAME=<name of your image> to the append line

Finally run the command sali_create_bootdisk from the bootdisk directory.