Note that one strategy I have done for scenarios where I want to do something disk like without a disk has been to set up an iSCSI install, using software target temporarily.
Alternatively if I want a more traditionally booting thing, I’ll launch a temporary virtual machine. I haven’t personally had need for such a thing lately, but those are two strategies I’ve used, depending on what was needed. From: David Johnson <david_john...@brown.edu> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:51 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [External] Re: [xcat-user] Brand new systemimager (beta) Thank you for all these enhancements. I have a question that in the past was answered “no”…. Is there a way to get your golden image from a node that is netbooted? Previously I would have to drive a mile, find a parking spot, find a used drive lying around, push it into an idle node, etc….. The only time I need to do this is when the image I want to build is newer kernel or different architecture from the management node. Thanks again, — ddj Dave Johnson On Oct 24, 2018, at 4:28 AM, Olivier Lahaye <olivier.laha...@free.fr<mailto:olivier.laha...@free.fr>> wrote: Hi, I’m the main active developper for systemimager and saw some questions about it in this mailing list. 1st of all, the new systemimager has nothing to do with the old one regarding the imager which is now generated using dracut and has a GUI based on Plymouth (optional when running) See https://github.com/finley/SystemImager/wiki The quick start guide and screenshot sections are the only one that are up to date. You’ll notice that now, systemimager is able to deploy and run the os without a single reboot! The currently supported OS are RHEL/CentOS 6 and 7, Fedora 27, 28, Upcomming 29 and OpenSUSE 42.3 and newer. It could/should work on deb distros if I had time to do packaging and if dracut can be installed aside initramfstools without conflicts. It is planned and will work on all deb distros that have dracut and Plymouth package. I have no date for availability as it depends on my spare time. (Feel free to join if you have deb packaging and rpm spec knowledge to port it to Debian dir structure (mainly dependency helpers to port from rpm to deb)) Regards, — Olivier Lahaye _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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