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    1212SystemImager allows you to create a clone of a your running system. This clone can than be distributed by various ways ( ie. rsync, bittorrent, flamethrower and floppy disks ). When installing a image the target system shall be booted with a initrd which contains the needed utilities for initializing a SystemImager installation. This initrd is very basic. In most cases the SystemImager installation also uses the BOEL. This BOEL contains some necessary utilities for partitioning, formatting and Bittorrent.
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    14 But the current inird and BOEL binaries of SystemImager is quite old. So we created Sali to replace only the kernel, initrd and BOEL. Also we only focussed on PXE installations with rsync and/or Bittorrent. So no floppy or flamethrower/multicast support in the initrd of Sali. Because we are focussing on PXE installation we desided to move the utilities from the BOEL to initrd.
     14But the current inird and BOEL binaries of SystemImager is quite old. So we created Sali to replace '''only''' the kernel, initrd and BOEL. During the development we only focussed on PXE installations with rsync and/or Bittorrent. So you can't use for floppy disk or flamethrower/multicast. Also we focussed on supporting the 2.6 kernels. Because we removed floppy support we also removed the BOEL. The BOEL utilities are now implemented in the initrd.
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    16 One of the major advantages of Sali's implementation of the kernel and initrd is the automatic detection of the hardware (
     16Also we started to increase the functionality of /etc/init.d/functions with some functions that could replace a lot of code in you Master script ( Sali supports the Master Script generated by SystemImage 4.1.6 ). For detailed overview of the change, read this [source:trunk/Changelog changelog].
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    1818= Documentation =
     
    3838 * Release tree:     {{{svn co https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/svn/sali/tags}}}
    3939 * Development tree: {{{svn co https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/svn/sali/trunk}}}
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     41= Authors / Contributers =
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     43== Authors ==
     44 * Bas van der Vlies
     45 * Dennis Stam