From 0e52b7b87f5b18833547799b4a9b6d723b502aa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: linggao Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:25:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] change in man pages for packimage and genimage to tell users about the /install/custom/ which they can store customized information git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xcat/code/xcat-core/trunk@2159 8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd --- xCAT-client/pods/man1/genimage.1.pod | 7 +++---- xCAT-client/pods/man1/packimage.1.pod | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/xCAT-client/pods/man1/genimage.1.pod b/xCAT-client/pods/man1/genimage.1.pod index 40ef260b2..dea6bc915 100644 --- a/xCAT-client/pods/man1/genimage.1.pod +++ b/xCAT-client/pods/man1/genimage.1.pod @@ -11,15 +11,14 @@ B [B<-h> | B<--help> | B<-v> | B<--version>] =head1 DESCRIPTION -Generates a stateless image that can be used to boot xCAT nodes in a diskless mode. The packages included +Generates a stateless image that can be used to boot xCAT nodes in a diskless mode. The default packages included (and excluded) in the image are specified by /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot//.pkglist and -/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot//.exlist. The generated image will be put in -/install/netboot///. +/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot//.exlist. Customized package lists can be specified under /install/custom/netboot/ directory. The generated image will be put in /install/netboot///. The B command must be run on a system that is the same architecture as the nodes it will be used on. If the management node is not the same architecture, copy the contents of /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/ to a system that is the proper architecture, and mount /install from -the management node to that system. +the management node to that system. The B command will run geninitrd automatically. (You can run geninitrd yourself at a later time, if you want to rebuild the initrd.) After your image is created, you can chroot to the diff --git a/xCAT-client/pods/man1/packimage.1.pod b/xCAT-client/pods/man1/packimage.1.pod index 78c2e5df0..190ae285b 100644 --- a/xCAT-client/pods/man1/packimage.1.pod +++ b/xCAT-client/pods/man1/packimage.1.pod @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ sent to the node for a diskless install. The install dir is setup by using "installdir" attribute set in the site table. The nodetype table "profile" attribute for the node should reflect the profile of the install image. -This uses the package information from the /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/[os] directory files for the profile input. +This uses the package information from the /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/[os] directory files for the profile input. However, you can customize the information and store it under /install/custom/netboot/[os] directory. The customized information will be used if any. =head1 OPTIONS @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ B<-m> Method (default cpio) I -This would use the package information from the /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/fedora/compute* files. +This would use the package information from the /install/custom/netboot/fedora/compute* files first. If not found it uses /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/fedora/compute* files. =head1 FILES