Here are some of my (mostly unedited) notes from the initial install. Perhaps they will be somewhat helpful.
## beginning of notes ##
. installed tftp-hpa:
# emerge tftp-hpa
# mkdir /tftproot # this is the default in /etc/conf.d/in.tftpd
. when the time comes, the init script for tftpd is /etc/init.d/in.tftpd
. downloaded systemimager-3.5.3 source
. unpacked it in /root/systemimager-3.5.3
. built
# cd /root/systemimager-3.5.3
# make
# make install_server_all
. edited /etc/systemimager/systemimager.conf to store images in
'/share/systemimager/images'
. unpacked systemimager to /share/systemimager-3.5.3
. logged onto m00 and built client
m00 # cd /share/systemimager-3.5.3
m00 # make install_client_all
. I should have done the initial build from /share/systemimager-3.5.3; then
I could have done 'make install_server_all' on the server and 'make
install_client_all' on m00, without rebuilding everything.
. ran si_prepareclient on m00
m00 # si_prepareclient
. failed because systemconfigurator is not installed, so installing
systemconfigurator
m00 # echo "app-admin/systemconfigurator x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
m00 # emerge -vp systemconfigurator
m00 # emerge systemconfigurator
m00 # si_prepareclient --server mini
. run si_mkdhcpserver
. first, backup /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf to /root/dhcpd.conf.bak
. second, install systemconfigurator on mini
mini # echo "app-admin/systemconfigurator x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
mini # emerge -vp systemconfigurator
mini # emerge systemconfigurator
. run si_mkdhcpserver
mini # si_mkdhcpserver
. pull an image
mini # emerge dev-perl/XML-Simple # needed by si_getimage
mini # si_getimage -golden-client m00 -image gentoo_0. For IP Address Assignment, I selected option (1) DHCP. Perhaps I should
have chosen (3) REPLICANT, which leaves network settings alone. I don't
know what these choices entail. According to the man page, I may just now
need to run 'si_mkdhcpstatic'.
. The next thing to do is apparently 'si_addclients'.
mini # si_addclients
. next, run si_mkdhcpstatic to recreate our static ip addresses that we have
already determined. (had to fix a bug in /usr/sbin/si_mkdhcpstatic)
mini # si_mkdhcpstatic
. can't figure this one out - skipping
. 'si_mkbootserver' sets up the boot server for doing pxeboot. It uses
tftpd, which we already have installed, and pxelinux, which is part of the
syslinux package. Grub also has a 'netboot' use flag. Should we be using
this?
. first, I'll install grub with the 'netboot' use flag to see what that
gives me.
mini # echo "sys-boot/grub netboot" >> /etc/portage/package.use
mini # emerge grub
m00 # echo "sys-boot/grub netboot" >> /etc/portage/package.use
m00 # emerge grub
. next, lets install syslinux just to see what that gives us
mini # emerge syslinux
. next, try si_mkbootserver
. requires xinetd, so lets install it
mini # emerge xinetd
mini # /etc/init.d/xinetd start
mini # rc-update add xinetd default
mini # echo "in.tftpd: 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/hosts.allow
. modified /etc/xinetd.conf:
only_from = localhost 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.0
. si_mkbootserver does not work fully, so setting up the pxe environment by
hand
. there is a systemimager-on-amd64 howto on the sisuite-users mailinglist.
. I am basically following this howto.
. the howto claims there is a bug with using GRUB, and lilo should be
used instead. I'll wait and see.
. have yet to test pxeboot for imaging a client
. to update a client with si_updateclient:
mini # /etc/init.d/systemimager-server-rsyncd start
node # si_updateclient -server mini -image <IMAGENAME>
## end of notes
Later, when I installed on the second cluster I used pxeboot.
It took a bit of trial and error, and issues with grub, but I got
it to work after much manual labor and tweeking of the
systemimager install script.
-bryan
On 11/15/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 12:18, eric pretorious wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed SI on Gentoo? I'm trying to install
> from source (v. 3.4.1) using `make all` and am getting errors
> complaining about "msdos_boot_sector":
>
> mkdosfs.c:###: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct
> msdos_boot_sector'
>
> FWIW:
> 1. msdos support is compiled as a kernel module into the system's
> 2.6.11 kernel.
> 2. The module is loaded.
> 3. IDE/ATA FLOPPY support is NOT compiled into the kernel or as a
> module.
>
> Eric P.
> Sunnyvale, CA
>
I'm using 3.5.3 on 64-bit gentoo on amd opteron. lots of issue compiling, but
I managed to get it to go. had to modify the make files to eliminate the
docs, and some packages it tries to install that I had to get via emerge.
One of them was the dos utilities.....
>
>
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