Thanks, Jarrod, for the suggestions. The iSCSI technique seems intriguing, however we haven’t made the leap into CES protocols. Still running cNFS and clustered CIFS. I see that CES offers iSCSI block device export of a file for booting purposes only. Is there a way to home-brew this on 4.2.3 without protocols?
> On Oct 24, 2018, at 8:54 AM, Jarrod Johnson <jjohns...@lenovo.com> wrote: > > 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 > <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 > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user> > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user>
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