Vreman, Peter - Acision wrote: >>>>>> I want to add an autodiscovery feature. I have some questions how to >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> start: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> - What kind of initrd shall be used? >>>>>> o Use livecd-tools to build the initrd+kernel from >>>>>> >> Fedora/RHEL/CentOS? >> >>>>>> * Minimum size is 150MB >>>>>> * Easy to maintain and regenerate >>>>>> o Create a small busy-box initrd+kernel >>>>>> * Minimum size is 20MB >>>>>> * Harder to understand >>>>>> * Requires more indepth linux knowledge >>>>>> >> I'd use the appliance creator tools (thincrust.et.redhat.com) -- just so >> that it would be easier for more people to develop on it. >> >> Then we can ask them to make it possible to make smaller and smaller >> images as needed :) >> > > The toolchain looks nice to use, but I can't use it out-of-the-box. The > toolchain requires the latest releases of at least livecd-tools, pykickstart > and yum. Those are not available in RHEL4 or RHEL5(-epel). > > I rebuild at the livecd-tools rpm under RHEL5, but it failed because it > requires at least python 2.5 for the try..except..finally syntax. > > Any idea how to handle such build dependencies? > > Regards, > Peter > >
Not suprising. livecd-creator itself wasn't usable on EL either when we doing koan live CD's (now replaced by "cobbler buildiso" because it works everywhere -- it's just a "dumb" syslinux based ISO so it requires much less to build and can be exceedingly small). However we really only have to generate one ISO and then host it, rather than making each person respin one. Build it in a Fedora VM, perhaps? There's also a mailing list: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/thincrust-devel > This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended > recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential > information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, > disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an > intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment > and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
