[EXTERNAL EMAIL] Stijn,
I am also interested. Any chance you could publish something on an online forum for posterity? I suspect some of my colleagues would also be interested, but I know they're not on the PE mailing list. cheers, Klaus On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:24 AM Stijn De Weirdt <[email protected]> wrote: > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > hi drew, > > i recenlty spend a bunch of time to something similar, and made it work > based on a centos7. you can add the dsu yum repo files to the rootfs and > make it work, including startup script to actually do the updates (and > so much more). > > the size is not an issue (not sure why you think that, unless you > converted the whole 1.8GB in an initrd), also making / writable is easy > (again, unless it's a single big initrd) > > and 300MB of space is not big compared to some other vendors who need 10 > times as much (and do not clean up afterwards!) > > i'll see what i can share (it does more than only updating firmware) if > you are interested > > > stijn > > > On 12/30/19 6:35 PM, Drew Weaver wrote: > > > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > > > I hate replying to my own posts, but I downloaded the SLI iso and > converted it to a pxeimage. It's 1.8GB which is way too large but I noticed > that it has a ramdisk for /var/cache/yum, is this where dsu automatically > writes everything? > > > > From: Linux-PowerEdge <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Drew Weaver > > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 12:00 PM > > To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] running dsu inside of a live image > > > > > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > Hello, > > > > We have been struggling to use the baseboard management controller to do > firmware updates on servers as different DRAC versions have different > capabilities and its also pretty slow. > > > > We really like using dsu to do updates so we are trying to create a live > image that basically just runs DSU and then turns the server off. > > > > The issue I am running into is that dsu seems to be writing data to the > / partition and since this is a live image the filesystem goes read-only > after it writes about 300MB to the filesystem. > > > > Is there a way to make DSU only use /tmp or any other ramdisk based > partition when it runs? > > > > Thanks, > > -Drew > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge >
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