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Usage
First make sure that your SALI installation works. We now give a brief tutorial howto clone a node and make a simple installation script.
For cloning a node and generation of configurations files SALI is still dependend on:
SALI uses the same concepts as systemimager. To get familiar with terms and concepts you can read the system imager manual:
Server
SARA has written a replacement for systemimager server tools. This software is in use at the SARA site since early 2011. It supports the rsync and bittorent installation protocol:
An other alternative is to install the systemimager server tools:
- systemimager-server
Starting/Stopping/Restarting the SALI server
Just issue one of the following commands:
/etc/init.d/sali start /etc/init.d/sali stop /etc/init.d/sali restart
Client
SALI
Included in the SALI server suite is the command sali. The command is used for:
- fetching an image
sali getimage
- generating a new rsyncd configuration file
sali rsync
Cloning
A rsync daemon must be started on your golden client. You can use the shell script sali_prepare. sali_prepare will create a rsyncd configuration and starts the daemon on your golden client node:
- sali_prepare <sali_server>
On the SALI installation server you can clone the golden client. Without arguments it will ask for
- the hostname of the golden client
- the image that must be updated/created
sali getimage
It's also possible to exclude files/directorues of your golden client to be transfered to your installation server. You have to create a rsync exclude file (rsync man page), eg:
- /tmp/rsync.exclude
/var/tmp/* /tmp/* /scratch/* /usr/src/* /var/log/*.gz /var/log/ntpstats/*.gz /var/log/atsar/* /var/log/ksymoops/* /home/*
An example on how to use the rsync.exclude file:
- sali getimage -h <golden-client> -i <imagename> -e "/tmp/rsync.exclude"
Systemimager
On the client node the following packages are required:
- systemimager-client
- systemconfigurator
The software is required to clone a node and for generation of configuration files (SALI post-install scripts).
Cloning
Login on the node you want to clone and use si_prepareclient, eg:
ssh gb-r6n1
gb-r6n1.irc.sara.nl:/root
root# si_prepareclient -y -server install -no-uyok
Using "parted" to gather information about disk:
/dev/sda
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Starting or re-starting rsync as a daemon.....
done!
This client is ready to have its image retrieved. You must now run
the "si_getimage" command on your imageserver.
Automatically create configuration file for systemconfigurator:
>> /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf
Login on your SALI installation server and run:
si_getimage -golden-client gb-r6n1 -image test_image
Installation
Installation from PXE environment
See documentation at https://oss.trac.surfsara.nl/pxeconfig
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.
