wiki:SaliRequirements

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Building Instructions

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

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.

The following commands must be present on your Linux machine before you can use the sali_create_bootdisk shell script:

  • genisoimage - On most Linux distributions available in the package genisoimage
  • isohybrid - On most Linux distributions available in the syslinux package

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

Burning to cd/dvd

Just use the iso with your favortie burning program

Copy to an USB drive

Make sure your USB drive is unmounted, then use the dd command to copy the iso to the USB drive.

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

Assuming your USB disk is device /dev/sdb on your Linux distribution

Add custom boot entries to the bootable cd/dvd/usb

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.