Changes between Version 20 and Version 21 of WikiStart

Timestamp:

06/04/10 12:20:14 (14 years ago)

Author:

bas

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 Here at Sara we use [http://wiki.systemimager.org SystemImager] to install our nodes on different types of clusters. 
 
-SystemImager allows you to create a clone of 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.
+SystemImager allows you to create a clone of your running system. This clone can than be distributed by various protocols, eg:
+ * rsync
+ * bittorrent
+ * flamethrower
+ * floppy disks 
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+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.
 
 But 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.