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# "SystemImager"
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# Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Brian Elliott Finley
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# $Id: CHANGE.LOG 4384 2008-02-10 11:13:08Z arighi $
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4.1.2
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- updated BOEL to 2.6.24 (for i386 and x86_64)
- updated BusyBox to 1.9.0
- updated LVM to 2.2.02.26 and devmapper to 1.02.22
- updated e2fsprogs to 1.40.2
- updated tar to 1.19
- reimplemented si_pushupdate to work over si_psh
- si_clusterconfig with no option now returns the list of all the clients
- fixed a bug in autoinstall script to correctly save original versions of
/etc/grub.conf, /etc/lilo.conf and /boot/grub/menu.lst
- fixed a bug that did not allow to install multiple initrd_template deb
packages of different architectures
- fixed a bug in si_netbootmond that generated a wrong localboot file when
deploying over a ssh tunnel
- now si_clusterconfig executed with no argument returns the whole list of
clients
4.0.2
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- fixed a bug in the rsync transport to correctly set the atime/mtime of
symlinks with kernels < 2.6.22
- fixed a bug to automatically detect a valid initrd also for statically built
UYOK kernels (without loadable modules support)
- fixed a bug to properly run systemconfigurator at the end of the imaging
process of the PS3 clients
- fixed a but in systemconfig.conf creation (BOOTDEV parameter was not
correctly used)
- fixed a bug with kexec fast-reboot to support relocatable kernels from RHEL5
- fixed a bug in CentOS distribution to correctly detect an initrd for UYOK
- improvements in initrd detection for UYOK
- added systemconfigurator >= 2.2.11 dependency
4.0.0
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- updated the manual including the documentation of all the recent features
- some fixes to build SystemImager deb packages for Sony PS3
- added some missing dependencies to build .deb packages
- allow to specify size="*" in the LVM logical volumes definitions (in
autoinstallscript.conf)
- now after a successful interactive image retrieval, si_getimage proposes to
execute si_clusterconfig instead of si_addclients to define the groups of
clients and assign images to them
- fixed a bug to correctly distribute files in the overrides that have the same
size and timestamp of the files in the target client, but a different content
- fixed a bug to properly set the permission bitmask of the override root
directory when the umask of the super-user in the image server doesn't use
the standard value 0022
- fixed a bug with 2.4 kernels without udev to properly translate devfs disk
names into the standard /dev names for hardware RAID disks that are using a
non-standard naming schema (cciss, ida, rd, ...)
- fixed a bug to automatically skip udev network persistent naming rules in
Debian or Debian-like distributions
- fixed a bug to properly recognize LABELs and UUIDs in swap partitions
- fixed a bug to not auto-detect a kernel for systemconfigurator when
si_prepareclient is executed with the --kernel option
- permanently added ramdisk_size=80000 to the boot parameters
3.9.6
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- allow to specify multiple overrides per group
- support dynamic host groups (a list of clients generated by a result
of a command executed on the image server)
- si_updateclient rewritten to be host-group compliant
- use systemconfigurator to re-create the boot-loader configuration at
the end of the imaging process (this allows to totally redefine the
partitioning schema in autoinstallscript.conf and automatically fix the
boot-loader configuration, according to the new partitioning schema)
- added --imaging option to si_psh (if the installation parameter SSHD=y
is used the --imaging allows to execute a command on a set of imaging
clients)
- added the "priority" attribute to host groups (if a client belongs to
multiple groups, the group with the higher priority will be used to
choose the image for that client; regarding the overrides of the
groups they'll be sorted by group priority: in case of file overlaps
first hit wins)
- multiple optimizations in the host group translations
- removed the deprecated command si_mkautoinstalldiskette
- always use --my-modules with UYOK in ppc64-ps3 architectures to reduce
the size of initrd.img
- make the detection code for PS3 more generic (support also kernels >
2.6.16)
- fix to correctly get UUIDs in hex format from swap headers (the same
format used in /etc/fstab)
- minor fix to get tmpfs boot options with a initramfs (aka cpio-based)
initrd
- minor fix in the monitoring post-install script to correctly report
the REBOOTED state in some versions of Red Hat / Fedora distro
- minor fix in SuSE to update the installed initrd when the imaged
client is equipped with a different hardware respect to the golden
client
- other minor fixes for a better error handling
- additions in manpages
3.9.4
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- introduced the concept of host group: groups can be listed or
modified by the command si_clusterconfig(8)
- improved tftpbooting architecture: the default /tftpboot root has been
moved to /var/lib/tftpboot (more LSB compliant) and it is a symlink to
/usr/share/systemimager/boot. In this way there is no need to keep in
sync kernel and initrd.img in /tftpboot anymore and we can support
multiple boot packages (kernel + initrd.img) at the same time
- a lot of improvements in the monitoring engine: now it is possible
keep monitored thousands of imaging clients with a low overhead of the
monitoring daemon
- improved the si_monitortk GUI responsiveness
- added a clickable header on top of the clients table in si_monitortk
GUI to sort the monitored clients with a single click
- added full support to filesystem LABELs and UUIDs
- added --flavor option to si_mkbootpackage: this allows to directly
create a boot package into a new flavor
- added the --append option to si_mkclientnetboot: this allows to define
installation parameters for the target clients by si_mkclientnetboot
(without the need to manually edit the syslinux.cfg file)
- at the end of the imaging systemconfigurator now configures the same
interface used to perform the auto-installation and not always eth0
- now at the end of the auto-installation systemconfigurator will
automatically configure the same network device used to perform the
installation (and not always and only eth0)
- more verbosity for systemconfigurator (useful for troubleshooting
activities)
- systemimager-boot-<arch>-standard deb package has been splitted in
systemimager-boot-<arch>-standard and systemimager-initrd-template-<arch>
- added priority classification of the entries in the TODO list
- a lot of bug fixes
- a new SystemImager boot screen ;-)
3.9.2
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- Added support for the PS3 architecture
- Improved support and compatibility with Debian (now deb packages can be
automatically built from source using the new target "make deb")
- updated BOEL kernel to 2.6.21 (for i386 and x86_64)
- fixed a bug that broke si_mkautoinstalldisk
- free unused RAM of the initramfs (only with cpio initrd.img) after switching
to tmpfs
- updated udev to udev_108-0ubuntu4
- support old versions of the BitTorrent client (better compatibilty
with *Ubuntu)
- fixed a lib/lib64 bug with ppc64
- fixed a bug in si_monitor daemon that didn't start correctly when the
directory /var/lock/systemimager was not present
- added missing manpages
- remount the filesystems in read-only before giving-up when the umount
fails at the end of the installation
- create all the swap partitions before the other filesystems in the autoinstall
script: this avoids potential OOM conditions that could occur during the
filesystem creation
- removed unused coreutils package from initrd.img
- removed unmaintained package imagemanip
- removed deprecated command si_mkbootmedia
3.9.0
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- added pci-automod autodetection: this allows to detect all the
required device drivers supported by the kernel without the need of an
external DB (it is fully based on sysfs and modules.pcimap, shipped with
kernel modules)
- added fast-reboot post install action (based on kexec): this allows to
execute the imaged kernel without the need of an additional reboot
through the BIOS
- added si_pushoverride command (a tool to synchronize overrides from
the image server to the clients, defining cluster topologies and host
groups)
- added support for minix UYOK initrd.img
- updated BOEL kernel to 2.6.20.4 (for i386 and x86_64)
- added systemconfigurator >= 2.2.9 dependency (required for by kexec
stuff)
3.8.2
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- fixed a bug in the monitoring: REBOOTED state was not properly
reported in some minimal image (without the command which)
- added "--config FILE" option to si_prepareclient and si_mkbootpackage
(and removed from si_mkautoinstalldisk: the option must be used in
commands that explicitly create an initrd.img from initrd_template)
- do not hard-code common patterns of exclusion in si_getimage (created
the configuration file /etc/systemimager/getimage.exclude)
- si_getimage didn't stop correctly the rsync daemon in the golden
client, using rsync over ssh for the image retrieval
- removed unused coreutils package from initrd.img
3.8.1
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- added the support of cpio initramfs for UYOK
- added interactive mode in si_psh
- added --arch option to si_mkbootpackage
- added support for Intel S5000PAL based mainboard
- now the installation parameter DEVICE can be used to bind the
execution of the DHCP client on a single interface (instead of
requesting an IP for all the available interfaces on the client)
- fixed a potential problem in si_getimage: now some dangerous patterns
are automatically excluded during the image retrieval (i.e. /selinux
files, LVM caches and backups, NFS stuff, etc.)
- fixed a problem in the detection of swap labels in RHEL distributions
- fixed a potential partition size problem with old versions of parted
(< 1.6.23)
- fixed a bug that occurs when parted prints empty flags (now all the
patition flags are correctly retrieved)
- now rsync is not restarted after si_mvimage, si_rmimage and si_cpimage
(the restart could break the installation if these command were
executed during the imaging)
- fixed a bug in SLES9 for UYOK (the --my-modules option was not able to
correctly detect the filename of the loaded kernel modules)
- fixed a dependency problem with perl(XML::Simple) and perl(XML::Parser)
3.8.0
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- added SSH=y|n and SSHD=y|n installation parameters
- added si_pushinstall to perform server-driven installation with SSH
transport
- added status option for all the scripts in /etc/init.d
- support hostname and IP ranges for si_psh, si_pcp, si_mkclientnetboot,
si_addclients
- added --ssh-key and --authorized-keys options to si_prepareclient and
si_mkbootpackage (to add SSH private key and/or SSH authorized_keys directly
into the initrd.img)
- automatically kill rsync daemon on the golden client after the image is
correctly retrieved
- updated LVM and device-mapper packages (now SystemImager can be
compiled on Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 ppc64 on PS3)
- fixed a bug to properly load kernel modules with dashes or underscores
in the name
- fixed a bug in the LVM1 logical volume discovery
- fixed some bugs in the use of SSH transport
- fixed a recursion bug in boot-standard RPM that causes yum to crash
- fixed a bug when saving the partitioning schema of the golden client
(with some old versions of parted the partitioning schema can be
uncorrectly saved)
3.7.6
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- resolved some compiling problems in Debian
- fixed perl::threads bug for Mandriva
- built more portable RPMs between different distributions
- added si_psh (SystemImager Parallel Shell) and si_pcp (SystemImager
Parallel Copy)
- added si_mkautoinstalldisk, a tool to create autoinstall disks
(supports also USB devices)
- added --no-delete option to si_updateclient
- added --unit option to si_prepareclient
- some fixes in the ssh transport
- better support for ppc64 architectures
- additional hardware support
- updated backend packages (LVM, devmapper, discover, rsync)
- generic bug fixes
3.7.5
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- BOEL updated to kernel 2.6.18.1
- added support of parted 1.7.x syntax
- correctly support swap over LVM
- correctly support TLS (Thread Local Storage) libraries
- reimplemented si_mkbootpackage using UYOK library
- UYOK supports monolithic kernels (and BOEL)
- improved the monitoring scalability
- improvents in the BitTorrent transport
- reduced the verbosity of the imaging process by default to speed up
the installation time
- some fixes in si_mkbootserver
3.7.4
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- better compatibility with 2.4 kernels
- better support with cciss/ida/rd RAID controllers
- added support for filesystems (and swap partitions) with LABELs
- better support of software-RAID devices (managed by mdadm), LVM
(version 1 and 2) and LVM over software-RAID volumes
- better support of x86_64 architectures
- added Infiniband support (experimental)
- new implementation of the BitTorrent transport
- autodetection of the staging directory
- lot of tunings to speed-up installations
- monitoring interface improvements (si_monitortk)
- added new states: 'finalizing', 'beeping', 'shutdown', 'rebooting'
and 'REBOOTED'
- implemented "full log" feature in virtual console (to see full
stdout and stderr)
- store the whole installation session in /root/si_monitor.log of the
imaged client
- optimized CPU and memory utilization on the image server
- lots of graphics improvements
- UYOK improvements
- added --kernel and --modules-dir option to si_prepareclient to choose a
custom kernel to perform installations
- implemented --image option for si_prepareclient (to prepare a
kernel+initrd.image package based on the kernel present in the image)
- UYOK initrd optimizations
- BOEL improvements
- moved to kernel 2.6.16.5
- moved to udev+hotplug device discovery
- added support for both /dev managed via udev and static /dev
- added --autodetect-disks option in si_getimage and
si_mkautoinstallscript
- added FUSION_SAS support (needed for LSISAS1064 support on the Sun Fire X4100 servers)
- added support for LSI 53c1030 storage adapter on the IBM e326 server
- new packages: systemimager-bittorrent, systemimager-imagemanip
- better RPM package dependencies for SUSE Linux and Red Hat/Fedora Linux
- services (eg. /etc/init.d/systemimager-server-rsyncd) are disabled by default
after RPM installation
- added SKIP_LOCAL_CFG to the kernel boot parameters for the clients (if
set to 'y' the check to find local.cfg will be skipped, saving a lot
of time with machines that don't properly support floppy controllers
- lots of bugfixes
3.6.3
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- Bug: discover patch was removed that allowed support of ICH7
controllers.
Fix: upgrade to discover1
3.6.2
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- Build system fix: change $(SRC_DIR)/$(DISCOVER_DIR)/lib/.libs to
$(DISCOVER_DIR)/lib/.libs in libpath
3.6.1
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- Broke discover and discover-data into seperate make files
- Simplified each
- The impetus was to fix a problem where wildcarded discover data files
were a target, but they didn't exist until that target had been
processed, resulting in a null target of "". Fixed.
- depend on discover and discover data build stamps instead of the
discover binary and data files.
- Was using wrong assignment operator (=: instead of =) for
DISCOVER_DATA_FILES. This meant that DISCOVER_DATA_FILES was being
evaluated _once_ at the beginning of the build -- prior to the files
being there. Fixed.
3.6.0
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- make complete_source_tarball target for getting all source, including
all versions of kernels (results in ~200M tarball)
- make source_tarball target now only produces systemimager source
- all source URLs point to download.systemimager.org, and all necessary
build source will be maintained there.
- LVM bug fixes
- si_monitor tweaks
- some refinements to UYOK (UseYourOwnKernel), but still considered beta
- version revs on many supporting utilities
3.5.3
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- installation monitoring GUI (si_monitor, si_monitortk)
- version revs on many supporting utilities
3.5.2
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Brian Finley
- added lib/SystemImager/UseYourOwnKernel.pm
Josh Aas
- miscellaneous patches aimed at improving Altix support
Andrea Righi
- added LVM support
dann frazier
- merge in fixes from 3.4 branch
3.5.1
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- added hfsutils to boel
- 2.6 series kernel capability and 2.6 series kernels for many archs.
- x86_64 (aka. Opteron) support
- added pdisk utility to boel initrd
- "Official" PPC64 support added by Terra Soft Solutions.
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/news/2004/2004-11-09.shtml
Works with PPC64 series Macs running Linux, and in theory, most other Linux
on PPC platforms. (AJ Hawks, David Smith, Owen Stampflee, Kai Staats)
3.4.0
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- use pre-install script to turn on dma for ata thingies. See
"/var/lib/systemimager/scripts/pre-install/99all.dma_on" (finley)
- include ssh as part of standard build, standard release (finley)
- renamed _all_ commands to use the "si_" prefix. allows for tab
completion with a competent shell, like zsh ;-) (finley)
- took out sfdisk.rul -- haven't been using sfdisk for quite a while
now (finley)
- added util-linux.rul, for mkswap that supports >2G on ia32. Recommended by
Viet Hoang. (finley)
- update x86 kernel to 2.6.9 (John Aas)
SystemImager-3.3.2 (unstable) UNRELEASED
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o dann frazier
- merge in bug fixes from 3.2 branch
SystemImager-3.3.1 (unstable) 2004.06.01
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o brian e finley
- new version of udpcast
- pre and post-install script tweaking
- lsimage: add --verbose option, and show image retrieval date
- getimage: record image retrieval time in $image/etc/systemimager/IMAGE_RETRIEVAL_TIME
SystemImager-3.3.0 (unstable) 2004.04.14
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o brian e finley
- add post-install script support
- add pre-install script support
SystemImager-3.2.1 2004.04.05
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o dannf
- 2.4.25 kernel
o Brian E. Finley
- Server.pm: deal with 'noauto' mount option properly during autoinstall
o Jerry G. DeLapp/dann frazier
- Add some strict checking around the APPEND entry in syslinux.cfg
- Remove some unnecessary pieces of the default append line
SystemImager-3.2.0 2004.03.02
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o added multicast support via Flamethrower. -BEF-
o added imagemanip tool. -KC-
o many other bug fixes and improvements
o renamed init scripts to /etc/init.d/systemimager-server-<foo>
o Fix bug #[ 501646 ] prepareclient shouldn't killall rsyncs.
o added hardlink/parse files patch for rsync from stevegt (Closes #669565).
o new versions of many of the boel binaries tools, including:
- e2fsprogs
- openssh
- discover
- parted
- reiserfsprogs
- sfdisk
- xfsprogs
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SystemImager-3.0.1 2003.03.30
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o updateclient: fixed bug [ 676908 ] GATEWAY not set in /local.cfg
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SystemImager-3.0.0 2002.12.08
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o static_dhcp and dynamic_dhcp went away. Now simply use "dhcp". See comments
in autoinstall script on setting the host name to get the functionality that
static_dhcp used to provide. -BEF-
o FAT support: FAT filesystems are now properly supported on i386 and ia64 (this
includes vfat). TODO #482984. -BEF-
o jfs support
o xfs support
o mvimage: Was failing if source image and destination image had the same
name, even if a different location was specified (-directory).
Fixed bug# 548279. -BEF-
o mvimage: Now use rsync to copy the image over, then after a successful
copy, we remove the old image directory. (only if source image dir and
destination image dir are different.) If they're the same, we just use
move(). -BEF-
o updateclient: Fixed bug number 426654. We now strip the directory,
specified with -directory, from the beginning of each path to exclude. -BEF-
o updateclient: The regex that was being created to exclude non-local
filesystems was parsing as a reference, as opposed to actual values.
Therefore, all filesystems ended up being excluded. Including "/" (root). ;)
Now we get a reference to the fstypes array with:
"my $fstypes = $config->fstype();"
Then use it as an array with: "@$fstypes"
This fixes bug #548156 -BEF-
o updateclient: Stopped accepting varying length (least unique) options. As
in, -verb to specify -verbose when -version is also an option. Put
Getopt::Long module back in and went back to using this for gathering all
command line options. Fixed Bug #547833 and #546599 -BEF-
o updateclient -a issues bad karma if dnsdomainname doesn't succeed in
returning a domain name. Simplified resolv.conf parsing code.
Fixed Bug #547835 -BEF-
o updateclient: Go back to doing option validation in the body of updateclient,
rather than asking AppConfig to do it. This allows us to present more
helpful output to the user. -BEF-
o updateclient: Put defaults into client.conf, rather than having them in the
program itself. -BEF-
o updateclient: Only use croak() when something we are expecting to work breaks.
For option validation and other expected user messages, do manually to provide
more useful output. -BEF-
o updateclient: After gathering options from the config file, use simple
variables throughout the code, rather than the AppConfig variable structure.
This makes the code easier to read. -BEF-
o updateclient: Don't include -listing in the options anynmore, but recommend
lsimage at the bottom. -BEF-
o updateclient: Help now indicates that user should put -directory "DIRECTORY"
in quotes. -BEF-
o prepareclient: Fixed the bit about rsync needing a hostname. No
longer need to prompt the user to allow us to add an entry, and we
leave the /etc/hosts file the way we found it. Fixes bug #546600 -BEF-
o Autoinstall client would fail if a /local.cfg was used, but
GATEWAY was not specified. Autoinstall now only tries to run the
route command if GATEWAY is specified. Fixed bug #547069. -BEF-
o The configdir variable was misnamed in the
_get_list_of_IDE_and_SCSI_devices subroutine. Changed to config_dir.
This fixes bug #546606. -BEF-
o Re-Worked the devices_by_label.txt creation code. Fixed bug #545335
"prepareclient errors while processing labels". -BEF-
o Fixed bug #545328 "prepareclient -q doesn't wait for rsync". -BEF-
o Improved prepareclient messages. -BEF-
o Fixed bug #501650 "prepareclient needs better tmp files". -BEF-
o Fixed a bug in Server.pm where partitions 5 and above were not dealt
with properly if using hardware RAID and non explicit partitioning.
This fixes bug #453549 -BEF-
o /etc/systemimager/rsyncd.conf is now a product of stub files.
packages provide only the stubs that are relevent to them, and then
regenerate /etc/systemimager/rsyncd.conf.
o added -kernel and -initrd flags to mkautoinstall{cd,diskette},
allowing media generation using non-default files. Closes #498741.
o added notes on using a DHCP v3 to the manual and the mkdhcpserver
manpage. Closes #502946.
o updateclient no longer references tftpboot. Closes #507543.
o cpimage now has ssh support (thanks Thomas Schenk!)
o new systemimager-boot flavors
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SystemImager-2.1.1 2002.02.05
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o IMAGENAME variable added to local.cfg
o autoinstall will now use local.cfg variables even if
ip address is obtained from dhcp
o addition of --append option to mkautoinstall* which allows
additional kernel parameters to be set during the creations of
install media
o new /etc/systemimager/client.conf file which defines parameters
on the SI client, including which filesystems to support on
updateclient
o removal of beep executable in favor of 'echo -e "\a"'.
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SystemImager-2.1.0 2002.01.16
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o first development release
o new arch - ia64
o prepareclient now supports devfs
o updateclient now supports Grub and Elilo through the use
of System Configurator
o fat and vfat filesystems are now imaged with getimage, though
the default SystemImager kernel for i386 will NOT propperly
install vfat partitions
o bootable partitions on golden-clients are now retained
o various bug fixes
o i386 kernel upgraded to 2.2.20
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SystemImager-2.0.1 2001.12.15
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installserver
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o fixed bugs/typos
initrd.gz
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o replaced old mke2fs with one that supports journaling
make*
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o inserted missing stubs for the deprecated make* scripts
manpages
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o added mkautoinstallscript manpage
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SystemImager-2.0.0 2001.10.16
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mkdhcpstatic
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o updated to work w/ RedHat 7.1, thanks to the PiT
FHS
---
o this is the FHS compliancy release (Dann/Brian), so lots of files have
been shuffled around. see the toplevel Makefile for details.
updateclient
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o added -dry-run patch (Dirk Wetter)
addclients
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o commandlineized (Austin Gonyou)
o added padded zero support (Brian)
install
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o new make-based build system
Client.pm
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o created it. (Brian)
Common.pm
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o created it. (Brian)
cpimage
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o created it. (Brian)
dev_ls-lR
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o added entries for /dev/rd/c0d[3456789]* (Brian)
getimage
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o broke certain functions out into the Server.pm and Common.pm libraries
(Brian)
o added -exclude option (Brian)
o depricated -server now recommends using cpimage (Brian)
o removed depricated -master-client option (use -golden-client instead)
(Brian)
initrd
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o Added /dev/sdg* and /dev/sdh* entries. (Brian)
o We now use a Makefile to create the initrd. This means that the rcS
script and other important files are stored in CVS as text files that
can be edited induhvidually. (go Dann!)
lsimage
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o no longer shows tftpboot as an image (Brian)
makeautoinstallcd, makeautoinstalldiskette, makedhcpserver, makedhcpstatic
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o Renamed make* to mk*. Left make* for this release, but they only say
"Use the mk* versions". (Brian)
mkautoinstallscript
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o created it. (Brian)
mkbootserver
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o created it. This tool will now be used to configure an image server
to allow network booting of clients. (Dann)
mvimage
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o created it. (Brian)
rmimage
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o created it. (Brian)
Server.pm
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o created it. (Brian)
systemimager.exclude
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o renamed to updateclient.local.exclude. Hopefully this will be a
less confusing name. (Brian)
systemimager.conf
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o created it. This configuration file can take variables to specify
many defaults throughout SystemImager. (Dann)
makeautoinstalldiskette
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o added -out-file option (Dann)
man pages
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o created (Dann)
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SystemImager-1.5.0 2001.05.08
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The whole thing
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o Added support for secure operation over SSH.
autoinstall initrd.gz
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o Fix bug [ #419185 ] rcS script matches multiple IPs.
o don't pull hosts file from imageserver if HOSTNAME is known.
o Fixed bug #407316. Autoinstall was only working on eth0, even if
another interface got an IP address. Thanks to James Oakley for
submitting this bug and a patch.
getimage
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o We were escaping $image so that IMAGE_LAST_SYNCED_TO was not being
set during autoinstall. Fixed by un-escaping.
o Fixed bug where the "Would you like to update the autoinstall script
for this image? ([y]/n): " question would fail if the user actually
typed a "y". Thanks to John Chabalko <john.chabalko@nbci.com> for
finding this bug.
o Fixed IP assignment question out of order bug. Thanks to
Cath Burrowes <cath@starbiz.com.au> for this patch.
o Added section to autoinstall.master scripts to deal with testing
for and doing raidstop if necessary -- even if we're not
autoinstalling a raid image.
o Add " || shellout" to the end of almost everything in <image>.master
for better error testing.
o Added some syntax checking for the -update-script option.
o Fixed bug: changed stringwise operators to numeric operators where
appropriate. This bug caused dynamic partitioning to fail when
the golden client had 10 or more partitions. Thanks to
Efstathiadis Efstratios <stratos@bnl.gov> for finding this bug.
lsimage
-------
o New with this release!
pushupdate
----------
o New with this release!
updateclient
------------
o -imageserver is now depricated. use -server.
makeautoinstallcd
-----------------
o Verify that the kernel and initrd.gz actually exist. Suggested by
Greg Pratt <gpratt@valinux.com>.
makeautoinstalldiskette
-----------------------
o Verify that the kernel and initrd.gz actually exist. Suggested by
Greg Pratt <gpratt@valinux.com>.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SystemImager-1.4.1 2001.04.20
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
addclients
----------
o Copy /etc/hosts -> /tftpboot/systemimager/hosts even if we don't
modify it.
autoinstall initrd.gz
---------------------
o don't pull hosts file from imageserver if HOSTNAME is known.
o Fixed bug #407316. Autoinstall was only working on eth0, even if
another interface got an IP address. Thanks to James Oakley for
submitting this bug and a patch.
autoinstall kernel
------------------
o added IBM ServeRAID support
o fixed eepro100 cmd_wait bug in the 2.2.18 kernel:
http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/eepro100/2001-January/001442.html
getimage
--------
o We were escaping $image so that IMAGE_LAST_SYNCED_TO was not being
set during autoinstall. Fixed by un-escaping.
o Fixed bug where the "Would you like to update the autoinstall script
for this image? ([y]/n): " question would fail if the user actually
typed a "y". Thanks to John Chabalko <john.chabalko@nbci.com> for
finding this bug.
o Added some syntax checking for the -update-script option.
o Fixed IP assignment question out of order bug. Thanks to
Cath Burrowes <cath@starbiz.com.au> for this patch.
o Added section to autoinstall.master scripts to deal with testing
for and doing raidstop if necessary -- even if we're not
autoinstalling a raid image.
o Add " || shellout" to the end of almost everything in <image>.master
for better error testing.
o Fixed bug: changed stringwise operators to numeric operators where
appropriate. This bug caused dynamic partitioning to fail when
the golden client had 10 or more partitions. Thanks to
Efstathiadis Efstratios <stratos@bnl.gov> for finding this bug.
makeautoinstallcd
-----------------
o Verify that the kernel and initrd.gz actually exist. Suggested by
Greg Pratt <gpratt@valinux.com>.
makeautoinstalldiskette
-----------------------
o Verify that the kernel and initrd.gz actually exist. Suggested by
Greg Pratt <gpratt@valinux.com>.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SystemImager-1.4.0 2001.03.04
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
install
-------
o Now uses the "install" program wherever possible
o Now works with /etc/rc.d/init.d/ or /etc/init.d.
o The imageserver now runs rsync as a daemon from an init script. This
is configured automatically at install time.
installclient
-------------
o Don't overwrite systemimager.exclude if it already exists. Thanks to
Wesley Smith <wessmith@engr.sgi.com>.
getimage
--------
o Improved support for ext3. However, currently all journals are
created at 15MB in size. They are also the hidden type (good).
Hopefully we can detect the existing size in the future. For now
the journal sizes can be set by modifying the <image>.master script.
o deal with networking properly on debian 2.2 and 2.1 systems
o now leaves it's mark -> "/etc/systemimager/IMAGE_LAST_SYNCED_TO"
o added the "replicant" option to the -ip-assignment option.
o -help and -version now exit with a status of 0.
o Added support for LABEL=/partition/label format in /etc/fstab. This
format is used in new (not upgrades) RedHat 7 installations.
o Improper usage statements no longer include the entire output from
the --help option. In earlier versions this would often run the
usage correction statement off the screen. Still provides a reminder
to "-help".
o Now autodetects whether prepareclient left the partition data behind
as "-explicit-geometry" or as megabytes. If using megabytes,
getimage creates the autoinstall script in such a way that client
disks don't have to have the same geometry. They can even be
significantly different sizes. They can easily be much larger than
the original master client disks and can even be smaller... (within
reason -- depends on specific partition scheme)
o Now uses the --numeric-ids rsync option.
o Fixed a harmless bug that made nasty output when blank lines were in
the golden clients /etc/fstab file. The fix was to tell getimage to
skip blank lines in the /etc/fstab file.
systemimager.exclude
--------------------
o added additional exclusions for Debian. Thanks to Wichert Akkerman
for sending these in.
local.cfg
---------
o Now uses IMAGESERVER instead of DHCPSIADDR. Of course, it is
backwards compatible so as not to completely confuse you. ;)
rsyncd.conf
-----------
o Change back to using one log file: /var/log/systemimager
afterburner
-----------
o Test for inetd and SIGHUP as is appropriate.
o Test for xinetd and SIGUSR1 as is appropriate. Thanks to Dann
Frazier <daniel_frazier@hp.com> for pointing out that xinetd only
does a state dump with a SIGHUP and requres a SIGUSR1 to do a soft
reconfigure.
o Now works with /etc/rc.d/init.d/ or /etc/init.d.
updateclient
------------
o now leaves it's mark -> "/etc/systemimager/IMAGE_LAST_SYNCED_TO"
noting the image the client was last synced to.
o added the -configure-from DEVICE option. Only used with -autoinstall.
Stores the network configuration for DEVICE in the /local.cfg file so
that the same settings will be used during the autoinstall process.
o -help and -version now exit with a status of 0.
o Now uses the --numeric-ids rsync option. Thanks to all who submitted
info on this one. This closes bug #123339.
goldenclient
------------
o Changed phraseology from "master client" to "golden client"
installclient
-------------
o /etc/systemimager/ directory is now properly created. This closes bug
#123337. Thanks to James Oakley <joakley@solutioninc.com>.
prepareclient
-------------
o No longer use /etc/mtab to get mounted filesystems. Now we use mount.
Now works properly on systems with /etc/mtab linked to /proc/mounts.
Thanks to the folks below for helping debug and test this code:
o Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>
o Chad A. Hughes <chughes@coremetrics.com>
o removed ext3 stuff. getimage now does all the ext3 stuff.
o -help and -version now exit with a status of 0.
o Offers to add "127.0.0.1 $hostname" to /etc/hosts.
o Now defaults to using megabytes to store partition information. Can
be told to leave explicit partitioning information for getimage with
the -explicit-geometry option.
o What was I thinking in v1.3.0 with the -no-rsyncd option?!? Don't try
this, folks. It would record your imageserver's partition information
as if it were the client's.
makedhcpstatic
--------------
o Automatically send a HUP signal to dhcpd (if running) to make it
re-read the freshly modified config file.
makedhcpserver
--------------
o Now supports specification of an imageserver that is a different
machine from the dhcp server.
o Added patches from John Goebel <jgoebel@valinux.com> to allow for
other non-systemimager specific advanced options!
autoinstallclient
-----------------
o added support for 3c905
o added support for 3c59x
o added support for pcnet32
o added support for Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit
o added support for 3ware Hardware ATA-RAID (EXPERIMENTAL)
o Smallerized. More stuff done by BusyBox.
o Now using hardlinks for BusyBox. Thanks for this suggestion go
to: Rob Latham <rlatham@plogic.com>.
o Added mawk. Funky and easily breakable sed stuff can now be done
with mawk.
o Changed to dhclient. dhclient allows us to try all interfaces for
DHCP. This will solve some instances where a system would boot the
autoinstall media off the network, but then couldn't get an IP
address for the running OS. dhclient also allows us to specify the
imageserver as seperate from the dhcp server.
o Bug fix: Was using POSIX [[:blank:]] in sed statement to find and
change spaces and tabs to single spaces. Sed version changed and no
longer behaved properly. Spaces work fine with the v1.3.0 client but
tabs will give you errors.
o Enforce that the client sleeps 35s before trying to use the network.
Even if using local.cfg.
autoinstall scripts
-------------------
o Added the -L option to sfdisk. Recommended by Matthew Marlowe
<mmarlowe@jalan.com>.
o Fixed a bug where autoinstall of clients with reiserfs root partitions
fails. The -notail option must be used, otherwise lilo will complain
about a hole in a mapfile and not make the disk bootable. Thanks to
Matthew Marlowe <mmarlowe@jalan.com> for submitting this bug.
o Turn on swap space after initializing. In the past we didn't use the
swap space at all. Go ahead and use it to help out in low memory
situations.
o Now uses the --numeric-ids rsync option.
o Fixed the bit where egrep is used to test for mounted filesystems
(indicating a running machine that shouldn't be touched). grep is now
used and no error messages should be seen.
makeautoinstallcd
-----------------
o -help and -version now exit with a status of 0.
makeautoinstalldiskette
-----------------------
o -help and -version now exit with a status of 0.
o Test for either superformat or fdformat. Use superformat if both exist.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SystemImager-1.3.0 2000.10.04
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
- autoinstall kernel -- Patched with:
- http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.17-A0
- http://www.tux.org/pub/devel/reiserfs/linux-2.2.17-reiserfs-3.5.25-patch.gz
- prepareclient -- <<<<< Don't use this feature to update >>>>>
<<<<< your master scripts. I must have >>>>>
<<<<< been up *really* late the night I >>>>>
<<<<< did this. See comments for v1.4.0. >>>>>
Added the -n or -no-rsyncd option. This allows
you to run prepareclient from a chrooted image
and then run getimage with the -s option to
update your master autoinstall script.
- autoinstall media -- Added support for software RAID.
- getimage -- Added support for software RAID.
- getimage -- Fixed a bug where filesystem creation and mounting was
done based on the order of entries in the fstab file.
If /boot came before /, for example, then the resultant
autoinstall script would unsuccessfully try to mount
/boot first. Mount points are now sorted. Thanks to
Dale Harris <rodmur@valinux.com> for finding this one.
- getimage -- Fixed a bug where fstab files containing tabs or with
spaces at the beginning of a line might not be parsed
properly. This could potentially result in an
improperly created autoinstall script.
SystemImager-1.2 2000.09.25
- makedist -- Only used by me really (Brian). Now automatically sets the
version number in each of the appropriate files.
- prepareclient -- No longer messes with /etc/rsyncd.conf. Now uses a
temporary configuration file: /tmp/rsyncd.conf and
references it like this:
rsync --daemon --config=/tmp/rsyncd.conf
- afterburner -- modified to add [tftpboot] section to existing
rsyncd.conf file.
- updateclient -- Now looks for systemimager.exclude in /etc/systemimager/.
- updateclient -- Figures out root device from /etc/fstab and appends
LAST_ROOT=device to lilo.conf entry when -autoinstall is
issued. This allows for placing a local.cfg file in the
root filesystem prior to rebooting after running
updateclient -autoinstall.
- updateclient -- added the -autoinstall option. Courtesy of
Alan Lambert <alambert@epicrealm.com>. Allows you to
tell any machine that is currently running to autoinstall
itself the next time you reboot. *Very* cool idea! No
mucking about with removeable media or that tricky PXE
stuff for remote re-installs.
- makedhcpstatic -- added support for restarting dhcp daemon.
- addclients -- images are now presented in chronological order from
oldest to newest. newest is now the default that is
presented.
- addclients -- made the descriptions more clear and broke it up into 3
sections.
- rsyncd.conf -- now has entry for /tftpboot and the /var/log/systemimager
entry is added on a per image basis.
- autoinstalldiskette -- now uses a 1.44M floppy!
- faster creation
- faster booting
- fewer floppy failures
- autoinstallclient -- now uses rsync v2.4.6
- autoinstallclient -- now uses smaller libraries, allowing for larger
kernels and more utilities!
- autoinstallclient -- support for use *without* DHCP! See the FAQ for
more info.
- autoinstallclient -- kernel includes support for software RAID and for
reiserfs.
- autoinstallclient -- added support for post install options of beeping,
shutdown, or reboot.
- autoinstallclient -- can now be used *without* DHCP.
- autoinstallclient -- added support for ext3.
- autoinstallclient -- added support for reiserfs.
- autoinstallclient -- added beep utility.
- autoinstallclient -- added mkraid and raidstart utilities.
- autoinstallclient -- added mkreiserfs.
- autoinstallclient -- added Wes Smith's patch to sedding for the HOSTNAME.
- autoinstallclient -- added some diagnostics.
- autoinstallclient -- added ifconfig and route utilities.
- autoinstallclient -- using rsync again for everything except network
boot installs.
- getimage -- you can now specify the path to the image directory with
the -directory option. Suggested by Wesley Smith
<wessmith@engr.sgi.com>.
- getimage -- added the -server option to allow copying an image from one
imageserver to another. Suggestion and example code
contributed by Phil Champon <pchampon@valueweb.net>.
- getimage -- modified the way getimage deals with filesystems to make it
much easier to add new filesystems to the supported list.
- getimage -- added support for post install options of beeping,
shutdown, or reboot.
- getimage -- added support for ext3 and reiserfs.
- getimage -- changed the mke2fs options to the conservative defaults.
Hopefully soon we will be able to detect existing settings and
re-create those by partition.
SystemImager-1.1 2000.05.26
- updateclient -- Fixed a bug. root --> / was not becoming the default
if the -directory option was not used and updateclient was exiting
quietly. Just an if/then/else issue.
- syslinux RPM -- Bug in the syslinux RPM prevented proper creation of
bootable CD image with makeautoinstallcd. This is fixed as of
syslinux-1.48-2.i386.rpm. (Note: this was not a bug in syslinux, just
a bug in the packaging)
- FAQ-HOWTO updates and fixes.
- makeautoinstallcd -- fixed a bug where the output file was not created
properly unless an absolute path was given. Now works with an absolute
path, a relative path, or just a filename (to be placed in the current
working directory).
- prepareclient -- (also part of the va-systemimager-client RPM)
Implemented a delay between killing a running rsync daemon and starting
up the fresh one.
- prepareclient -- now tests for hostname in /etc/hosts for rsync.
- autoinstallcd.iso -- autoinstallcd ISO image put up on the download
site. (3 Meg)
- prepareclient -- gave it a real usage statement. Behavior is
no longer to traipse upon the network with tftp, but to use the
utilities on the client system. Options are -help, -version, and -quiet
- va-systemimager-client RPM -- now you *must* run prepareclient after
installing the client RPM. This is so that you don't unwittingly have
an rsync daemon running sharing things you don't want shared.
- added support for debian. Let me know how it goes.
SystemImager-1.0 2000.05.02
- The name changed ever so slightly ;)
- Lots of little things -- bug fixes and what not. Ease of use stuff.
- added the "makeautoinstallcd" command. This allows you to create a
bootable 3 Meg iso9660 image that you can burn to a CD.
- addclients -- If you give it new hostnames for a range of existing
IP addresses, it now replaces the existing hostnames instead of
ignoring them.
SystemImager-0.24beta 2000.03.09
- makedhcpstatic -- Modified to try /var/state/dhcp/dhcpd.leases, then
/etc/dhcpd.leases, and as a last resort /var/log/messages.
- autoinstall system -- The autoinstalldiskette is no longer based on
Tom's Root Boot. It is now a miniature distribution of my own. It
boots using syslinux. This also allows us to use the same kernel and
root filesystem for both diskette booting and network booting via
pxelinux (part of syslinux).
- rsyncd.conf -- added "chroot = no".
Brian Luethke <luethke@msr.epm.ornl.gov> pointed out that if a users
UID/GID is different on a client (from the imageserver) when doing an
"updateimage", the client ends up with a file owned by a user that
doesn't exist. By using "chroot = no", rsync is able to translate UIDs
to the appropriate user on the client system. If a user with the same
name does not exist on the client, then it still gets a UID that belongs
to no user. Sigh...
- systemimager.exclude -- added /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*
- FAQ-HOWTO -- updated the FAQ and combined it and the HOWTO together.
- INSTALL -- got rid of this document and added it's contents to the README.
Cleaning up clutter is always good.
- install -- allows a -q, -quiet, or --quiet option.
- install -- you can now run install from any fully qualified or relative path.
- install -- relocated /systemimager/images to /var/spool/systemimager/images.
In the future, the installer will present you with a choice for the _real_
location.
- install -- no longer using a tarball within a tarball.
- install -- added more statements to tell you what it's doing.
- install -- added some additional error checking.
- install -- took out the bit that copied /etc/hosts to /systemimager/etc/.
- install -- nothing gets installed to /systemimager.
- install -- now puts documentation in /usr/doc/systemimager-$version.
- install -- now puts binaries in /usr/sbin/.
- install -- no longer asks if you want to create an autoinstalldiskette.
This was confusing and caused people to think they had to create a diskette
at that point, or they had missed their chance.
- rsyncd.conf -- added *.deb, *.rpm, and *.dbf to the don't compress directive.
- rsyncd.conf -- removed the [etc] and [installstuff] blocks. These small
files will now be transferred via tftp. tftp is now necessary anyway in
order to support network booting.
- rsyncd.conf -- now logs transactions to /var/log/systemimager. This can
be used to track the progress of clients autoinstalling or updateimage(ing).
- addclients -- now asks you for the number of the first machine and the
number of the last machine (instead of "how many machines").
- addclients -- now presents you with a list of avaliable images and tests
to be sure that specified image exists. (suggestion courtesy of Stephen
Greene <sgreene@valinux.com>.
- addclients -- changed to create host entries in /etc/hosts only. No more
messing about with the non-intuitive (dual) location of
/systemimager/etc/hosts.
- getimage -- has been "perlized" by Wesley Smith <wessmith@engr.sgi.com>.
- getimage and therefore $image.master -- NISDOMAIN is now added to
/etc/sysconfig/network (for both dhcp and static) and NETWORK and
DOMAINNAME are added to static.
(patch sent in by Michael P. McLeod <mmcleod@bcm.tmc.edu>).
- getimage and therefore $image.master -- HOSTNAME is only added to
/etc/sysconfig/network when using static IP addresses. This way, the host
gets it's hostname via DHCP along with it's IP address -- and they match!
Even if they change! This means you can change the hostname by simply
changing the IP address assigned by dhcpd (based on MAC addres).
- getimage and therefore $image.master -- pointed new images to
/var/spool/systemimager/images/$image and reflected this in the
/etc/rsyncd.conf file.
SystemImager-0.23 2000.02.14
- getimage and therefore $image.master -- only $HOSTNAME is written to
/etc/HOSTNAME and /etc/sysconfig/network instead of $HOSTNAME.$DOMAINNAME
- getimage and therefore $image.master -- fixed a bug where filesystems were
not created and mounted in the appropriate order. (bug submitted by
Tanmoy Bhattacharya <tanmoy@lanl.gov>)
- getimage and therefore $image.master -- took out the bit at the end that
tries to make noise and ends up writing "\a\a\a\a\a\a\a"
- getimage and therefore $image.master -- Ian McLeod <ian@valinux.com>
observed compression saturating CPU utilization on an imageserver when
installing only 8 clients simultaneously. Turned compression off during
autoinstall, and observed moderate CPU utilization whilst installing 21
clients simultaneously. Now I need to go to Gigabit Ethernet on the
imageserver to relieve the network bottleneck.
- getimage and therefore $image.master -- added an example of how to customize
the sfdisk statements. If you are installing the same image to clients with
disks that are physically different in any way from the client you got the
image from, you should customize your sfdisk statements according to the
example you will find in your $image.master script after you do your getimage.
SystemImager-0.22 1999.12.29 (I'm getting Altitude sickness -- no more
declaring the elevation. Well, I'm not really
sick, not that way, anyway, but it's not really
accurate. I didn't do all of the work on v0.21
at 655 feet, for example. Oh, well ;)
- Ari, sorry I haven't incorporated your changes yet. Haven't been able to
review them thoroughly and test them. But they look good and will get in
soon.
- added 5 more seconds to each of the two sleep statements on the
autoinstalldiskette.
- fixed a bug in the autoinstalldiskette (found by Susan Coghlan <smc@lanl.gov>
and separately found by Robert Saft <zardoz@valinux.com> and
Ted Arden <ted@valinux.com>). Both new and old mkswap commands were on the
diskette, but the new one was in /tmp/ ? Moved the new (large swap capable)
mkswap command to /usr/bin on the diskette and got rid of the old one.
- fixed a bug in the autoinstalldiskette (found by Susan Coghlan <smc@lanl.gov>)
that had to do with finding the nodes host name based on it's IP address. If
the node had an IP address of 1.1.1.24, but 1.1.1.244 came earlier in the
/systemimager/etc/hosts file, it would match the 1.1.1.244 address and assume
it was the corresponding host.
- do chown afterwards, so that files in tarball don't have to be owned by root
- autoinstalldiskette -- umount all non-floppy filesystems and make noise when
done, in addition to dropping eth0, but don't halt (so that noise continues)
SystemImager-0.21 1999.12.07 at 655 feet (Dallas, Tx)
- install and prepareclient -- bux fix submitted by Susan Coghlan
<smc@acl.lanl.gov>: dots (.) and dashes (-) in function names apparently
break with bash2. Also recommended a change in the way prepareclient
deals with /etc/systemimager.exclude.
- addclient -- changed some of the interactive defaults as indicated by [x],
and added some error checking.
- install -- bug in the verbage -- fixed by Ari Jort.
- FAQ -- updated by Ari Jort.
SystemImager-0.20 1999.11.22 at 655 feet (final touches made in Dallas, Tx)
(but coded at several different altitudes)
- overall theme for changes -- scripts for everything!!! You should be
ready to autoinstall your first client in (basically) three steps:
- run install and answer all it's questions and follow it's instructions
- run prepareclient on the "master" client
- run getimage on the imageserver
Now you should be ready to boot your first autoinstall client off the
autoinstalldiskette.
- updateimage -- Major overhaul. Now written in perl. Just try it.
- makedhcpstatic -- decided to continue using /var/log/messages as
the dhcpd.leases file can be found in many different places and
for some reason, /var/log/messages is always in the same place ;).
- renamed /systemimager/installscripts to /systemimager/installstuff
- moved /systemimager/clientstuff into /systemimager/installstuff
- changed all instances where "systemimager" was used to refer to the
image server with "imageserver". It just makes more literary sense.
- makedhcpserver -- created it! This script will ask you appropriate
questions and create a starter dhcpd.conf file for you *and* include
the information necessary for autoinstalldiskette clients to find the
imageserver.
- prepareclient -- now pulls client scripts, client bin, and etc stuff
onto "master" client _before_ getting image. Places updateimage in
/usr/bin on client.
- $imagename.master -- cleaned up the static IP section (this will be
automated later) and added an ifconfig eth0 down so that the client
will no longer respond to pings after it has halted (so you can tell
when a headless client is finished autoinstalling).
- addclients -- created it! This script will create the symbolic links
necessary for your autoinstall clients to autoinstall.
- autoinstalldiskette -- added the aic7xxx module (an Adaptec SCSI module).
This means support for the VA Linux Systems FullOn servers. I also
discovered that with certain ethernet switches it takes about 30 seconds,
after the interface comes alive, before they will transmit data on that
port. It seems that the dhcp request would go out during that time
period and that the dhcp client would give up. The autoinstalldiskette
now brings up the ethernet interface with a bogus address of 127.0.0.2
which makes the interface live (as far as the switch is concerned).
The autoinstalldiskette then sleeps until after the switch starts
transmitting, and then issues it's dhcp request which is serviced
almost immediately.
- other stuff what I can't remember...
SystemImager-0.19 1999.10.14 at 655 feet (Dallas, Tx)
- autoinstalldiskette -- made it truely generic again. no longer necessary
to modify the diskette image during install. this means that the server
system no longer requires ram disk capability! And it makes the install
floppy more flexible -- you don't have to modify it if you change the IP
address of the server. This is done by adding the IP address of the
imageserver as the last name server entry in dhcpd.conf. If it
happens to be running a nameserver, great! If not, the entry will be
ignored. The client then takes this last name server entry and assumes
it to be the imageserver.
- prepareclient -- no longer customized at install time. this script is
also now generic. it simply asks for the imageserver's ip address when
it is run.
- install -- modified appropriately to deal with the above changes.
- install -- added some error checking to the yes/no questions.
- prepareclient -- added some error checking to the yes/no questions.
- autoinstalldiskette -- added some error checking so that even if certain
network related errors occur, the system will not hang and you can still
login to the client to see what's up.
- VERSION -- started keeping separate versions for the autoinstall diskette
and SystemImager (so's that I don't have to modify the image of the
"generic" diskette just to change the release number.
- getimage -- take "# pounded out lines" in $image/etc/fstab into
consideration.
SystemImager-0.18 1999.10.05 at 34,000 feet (Albuquerque, NM to Dallas, TX)
- getimage -- added lines to the /systemimager/installscripts/$image.master
script that can be uncommented if clients will use static IPs after the
install.
- makedhcpstatic -- created it. No more mucking about trying to punch in
gobs of mac addresses. Simply populate /systemimager/etc/hosts with all
the relevant client and server IP addresses, specify a dynamic range in
your dhcpd.conf file, and image your clients with the autoinstall
diskette in the order you want the IP addresses assigned. After
booting your systems, you can run this script to make the static entries
for you! This script reverse resolves IP addresses to hostnames via the
/etc/hosts file on the server and uses hostnames instead of IP addresses
in the dhcpd.conf file. This way, you can change a hosts IP address by
simply changing the entry in /etc/hosts on the image server.
- Perl -- started writing server-side scripts in Perl. Existing server
side scripts will be converted to Perl in time. It just got too messy
in Bourne. ;)
- modified the autoinstall diskette so that:
- it only has a 5 second delay during boot
- it uses extended VGA and doesn't ask your opinion
- it shows it's name as "SystemImager-autoinstalldiskette-$version"
SystemImager-0.17 1999.10.05 at 655 feet (Dallas, Tx)
- getimage -- changed rsync options so that it actually *gets* all
of the filesystems now that we're no longer assuming only one
filesystem.
- getimage -- chmod +x prepareclient script after modifying
- getimage -- no longer bother unmounting before halting in $image.master
- VERSION -- started including this file
SystemImager-0.16 1999.10.04 at 655 feet (Dallas, Tx)
- getimage -- overwrite $image.master every time.
- getimage -- create $image.master script with the ability to
partition *each disk* *exactly* like on the master client
by pulling data left behind by "prepareclient".
- prepareclient -- rsync over a static sfdisk and get *exact*
partition scheme for *each* disk (as per /proc/partitions).
store this information in /etc/partitionschemes/$drivename
for retrieval by "getimage" once image is on the imageserver.
SystemImager-0.15 1999.09.19 at 655 feet (Dallas, Tx)
- getimage -- use rsync to get mount information via /etc/mtab
instead of asking if network filesystems are mounted
and exclude all non-ext2 filesystems from the get. Perhaps
we'll become more flexible and pull other appropriate filesystems
in the future.
(This idea courtesy of "Ari Jort" <ajort@valinux.com>)
SystemImager-0.14 1999.09.19 at 655 feet (Dallas, Tx)
- modify getimage to assume only swap and root, and therefore to use
the -x option in rsync to constrain to one filesystem.
- modify getimage to ask questions and do some discovery
- modify getimage to create $imagename.master in installscripts
- get rid of SystemImager.default.sh
- add warning about floppy drives to makemeadiskette/install.s
SystemImager-0.13 1999.09.15 at 33,000 feet (Albuquerque, NM to Dallas, TX)
- maybe I hadn't finished the install script... added a kill -HUP for inetd
- also added a kill -HUP for inetd to prepareclient
- modified prepareclient to create rsyncd.conf if it didn't exist at all
SystemImager-0.12 1999.09.15 at 655 feet (Dallas, TX)
- finished install script -- for installing SystemImager on the image server
- install script now prompts you to create your first autoinstall diskette
- wrote prepareclient -- for preparing a client to have it's image taken
- renamed /systemimager/installstuff to /systemimager/installscripts
- added installscripts entry to
/systemimager/serverstuff/etc/rsyncd.conf.starterfile
- updated /systemimager/clientstuff/bin/updateimage to not present
"installscripts" when doing a listing.
- finished modifications to autoinstall diskette to take advantage of using
rsync to grab the initial install script
SystemImager-0.11 1999.09.14 at 35,000 feet (Newark, NJ to Dallas, TX)
- changed mode of initial image install so that no tftp is necessary.
now using rsync to get client specific install script.
(Idea courtesy of "Ari Jort" <ajort@valinux.com>)
- added install script -- for installing SystemImager on the image server
SystemImager-0.10 1999.09.12 at 32,000 feet (Dallas, TX to New York, NY)
- added comments to dhcpd.conf.systemimager.example file
- added tftp to /usr/bin with man page in /usr/man
- tftp is now used to pull down scripts using the more flexible scheme
described below.
- changed mode of initial image install so that no nfs is involved and also to
allow greater flexibility/manageability geared towards client
customization/different images.
(This idea courtesy of "Bartosz Ilkowski" <barbi@danforthcenter.org>)
SystemImager-0.9 1999.09.07 at swamp level (Princeton, NJ)
- changed the name from TheLamp to SystemImager
- changed script names/directories/variables, etc. as appropriate
- expanded the exclude list in the getimage script
TheLamp-0.8
- who knows?
TheLamp-0.7
- who knows?
TheLamp-0.6
- get /etc/resolv.conf from dhcpcd -- no more static configuration on diskette
- pump is not necessary -- can get what we need from dhcpcd
- get get DNS domain name from /etc/resolv.conf
- added sfdisk to /bin with man page in /usr/man
- removed the static sfdisk from /thelamp/installstuff
- added rsync to /bin with man page in /usr/man
- removed the static rsync from /thelamp/installstuff
- added mkswap with >128Meg support to /bin with man page in /usr/man
- modified the /thelamp/installstuff/install-a-genie script
TheLamp-0.5
- who knows?
TheLamp-0.4
- who knows?
TheLamp-0.3
- who knows?
TheLamp-0.2
- who knows?
TheLamp-0.1 -- sea level (St. Louis, MO)
- New Beginning -- Danforth Plant Sciences Center. The Aladdin Project.
Pterodactyl modified to work with Linux.
Pterodactyl v0.01
- Genesis ;)
Began the winter of 1998/1999
Never really packaged for use by others and not very intuitive. Originally
created to allow 4 sysadmins to administer ~400 Solaris boxes of varying
hardware and OS revisions on a nationwide network.
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