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hi all, i'll try to factor out the site specific stuff from the common one and make a github repo. stijn On 1/8/20 10:25 PM, Klaus Steden wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
