[EXTERNAL EMAIL] I was successful at getting this working. The only thing that is annoying about DSU is that it doesn’t upgrade everything.
Like the OS install driver packages, etc. Have you found a workaround for that? From: Linux-PowerEdge <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Klaus Steden Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 4:25 PM To: Stijn De Weirdt <[email protected]> Cc: Linux PowerEdge <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] running dsu inside of a live image [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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]>> > On Behalf Of Drew Weaver > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 12:00 PM > To: '[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>' > <[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
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