Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL7 DVD creation
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! Now to learn some new tools... -Mark On 04/21/2016 01:39 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote: Hi Mark, We use lorax (in SL) to create the install trees and pungi to create the media (was in EPEL). You can host an SL context on the DVD following: http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7/contexts/#_context_directory_structure You can also use the attached script to build a DVD. Pat On 04/21/2016 01:28 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: I'm working on making the jump from SL5 to 7 (skipped over 6). For SL5 I have a nice shell script that unpacks the official DVD iso, adds/removes a few packages, rebuilds the repo data, tosses in a custom syslinux config and kickstart files, and finally builds a resultant bootable respun iso image. From a quick search, I found instructions on using revisor for SL6. I don't see revisor in any of the SL7 repos and don't see updated information on the website. I see this "Context" idea, but it seems overkill and (possibly) network dependent. I want everything to end up right on the install DVD for easy off-line installation. My existing setup has some workarounds and kludges to make it work, and would prefer to attempt to use the modern, accepted method for doing this. Especially for the EFI booting. Any help or directional pointing is much appreciated. Pat, is the toolset used to build the official images available somewhere for consumption? -Mark
Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL7 DVD creation
Hi Mark, We use lorax (in SL) to create the install trees and pungi to create the media (was in EPEL). You can host an SL context on the DVD following: http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7/contexts/#_context_directory_structure You can also use the attached script to build a DVD. Pat On 04/21/2016 01:28 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: I'm working on making the jump from SL5 to 7 (skipped over 6). For SL5 I have a nice shell script that unpacks the official DVD iso, adds/removes a few packages, rebuilds the repo data, tosses in a custom syslinux config and kickstart files, and finally builds a resultant bootable respun iso image. From a quick search, I found instructions on using revisor for SL6. I don't see revisor in any of the SL7 repos and don't see updated information on the website. I see this "Context" idea, but it seems overkill and (possibly) network dependent. I want everything to end up right on the install DVD for easy off-line installation. My existing setup has some workarounds and kludges to make it work, and would prefer to attempt to use the modern, accepted method for doing this. Especially for the EFI booting. Any help or directional pointing is much appreciated. Pat, is the toolset used to build the official images available somewhere for consumption? -Mark build.context.dvd.sh Description: application/shellscript
SL7 DVD creation
I'm working on making the jump from SL5 to 7 (skipped over 6). For SL5 I have a nice shell script that unpacks the official DVD iso, adds/removes a few packages, rebuilds the repo data, tosses in a custom syslinux config and kickstart files, and finally builds a resultant bootable respun iso image. From a quick search, I found instructions on using revisor for SL6. I don't see revisor in any of the SL7 repos and don't see updated information on the website. I see this "Context" idea, but it seems overkill and (possibly) network dependent. I want everything to end up right on the install DVD for easy off-line installation. My existing setup has some workarounds and kludges to make it work, and would prefer to attempt to use the modern, accepted method for doing this. Especially for the EFI booting. Any help or directional pointing is much appreciated. Pat, is the toolset used to build the official images available somewhere for consumption? -Mark
bug in pdsh maybe?
I didn't want to submit a bug until I know a bit more about this issue. We use pdsh here quite a bit. Our systems (200+) are on SciLinux 6.6, 6.7, 7.1 and 7.2. We're just about finished transitioning from an old NIS setup to FreeIPA (4.2.0-15) and have noticed that the netgroups defined in FreeIPA aren't being seen in pdsh. For instance, I've defined four hostgroups linux_af, linux_gm, linux_ns and linux_tz. Hosts are put into one of those according to the first letter of the hostname. I've also defined a netgroup, all_linux, that combines those four host groups into one netgroup. If I run "pdsh -l root -g linux_af" it works just fine. But running "pdsh -l root -g all_linux" I get this: [root@host ~]# pdsh -l root -g all_linux pdsh@host: no remote hosts specified That system is on SL6.7 with pdsh-2.26-4.el6.x86_64, pdsh-rcmd-ssh-2.26-4.el6.x86_64 and pdsh-mod-netgroup-2.26-4.el6.x86_64 installed. I tried from a SL7.2 system with the same packages but version 2.31-1 installed and got the same results. On a Fedora 23 system, using 2.31-4, everything seems to work just fine with both the hostgroup and the netgroup. Is this something that I should report as a bug, or is it just the expected behaviors from those different versions of pdsh? -- Stephen Berg Systems Administrator NRL Code: 7320 Office: 228-688-5738 stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil
