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List:       sisuite-users
Subject:    Re: [sisuite-users] Systemimager on Debian Wheezy
From:       Bas van der Vlies <bas.vandervlies () surfsara ! nl>
Date:       2013-05-14 7:16:28
Message-ID: 16ED4B66-A569-40CB-98FF-0433C5B8B016 () surfsara ! nl
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On 7 mei 2013, at 21:40, christopher barry <cbarry@rjmetrics.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 09:23 +1200, Andrej wrote:
>> Chances are http://www.mail-archive.com/sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05546.html
>> helps ... :)
>> 
>> On 1 May 2013 23:58, Vanush Misha <misha@cs.nuim.ie> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I've followed instructions in Olivier's and Yann's emails
>>> (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30699920 and
>>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30669672), but
>>> now an attempt to install systemimager-server on a (Debian Wheezy
>>> server) with "apt-get install systemimager-server" fails with unmet
>>> dependencies:
>>> 
>>> "The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>> systemimager-server : Depends: mkisofs but it is not installable
>>> Depends: systemconfigurator (>= 2.2.11) but it is not installable"
>>> 
>>> (there are also some unmet "Recommends").
>>> 
>>> Before I break my server, does anyone know can I safely force the
>>> package in place?
>>> 
>>> On a separate note: where can I get sources used to build
>>> systemimager-related .deb packages?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Misha
>>> 
> 
> I may have begun this thread a while back - hard to tell now, but I was
> instructed to pull debs from the OSCAR site. I too ran into a bunch of
> dependency issues. Seriously to the point of thinking about doing a new
> SI completely (well, to fit my needs anyway). Still don't have a working
> SI install (it's missing GRUB2 support anyway, so it's not all that
> useful to me anyway as it turns out)
> 
> Anyone here want to work on a new SI with me? I see the following for
> Si2:
> 
> * apache served kernel / fat initramfs via iPXE and http
> * cgi based system w/iPXE scripting that determines what image to load
> based on MAC
> * use udp-cast with streamed cpio and crc32 to verify integrity
> 
> The fat initramfs will have all the tools needed to get more tools from
> the server via curl or wget. The server will house scripts to accomplish
> certain tasks that can be easily definable. the client will pull these
> and the definitions. The initramfs will just spin doing tasks, rather
> than switch_root.
> 
> could even do emdebian as a small iscsi-based boot image rather than
> just a fat initramfs, although not sure what that would buy.
> 
> Thoughts? Is it worth it, or is making SI work without hair pulling
> simpler? Honestly, I'm jonesin' to do the new one if anyone is into it.
> 
> 

christopher,
 
 Did you look at SALI ( https://oss.trac.surfsara.nl/sali)?

regards


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