From 7d414e14e8541e28d97f54f95a26356945c144fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: brianfinley Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:24:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update man page to reflect '-n' as optional. git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xcat/code/xcat-core/trunk@9315 8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd --- xCAT-client/pods/man1/genimage.1.pod | 20 ++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/xCAT-client/pods/man1/genimage.1.pod b/xCAT-client/pods/man1/genimage.1.pod index bc343d32e..c1e8b82cc 100644 --- a/xCAT-client/pods/man1/genimage.1.pod +++ b/xCAT-client/pods/man1/genimage.1.pod @@ -65,8 +65,15 @@ The mount permission of B directory for B mode, which is =item B<-n> I -The driver modules needed for the network interface. Note: the order that the drivers are specified in -is important. +This argument is now optional, and allows you to specify the driver +modules needed for the network interface(s) on your stateless nodes. If +you do not specify this option, the default is to include all recent IBM +xSeries network drivers. + +If specified, I should be a comma separated list of +network drivers to be used by the stateless nodes (Ie.: -n tg3,e1000). +Note that the drivers will be loaded in the order that you list them, +which may prove important in some cases. =item B<-l> I @@ -105,11 +112,12 @@ Display usage message. =item 1. -To generate a fedora8 image for a compute node architecture x86_64 and place it in the -/install/netboot/fedora8/x86_64/compute/rootimg directory: change directory to -/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/fedora and run: +For example, to generate a fedora8 image for a compute node architecture +x86_64 and place it in the +/install/netboot/fedora8/x86_64/compute/rootimg directory: - genimage -i eth0 -n tg3,bnx2 -o fedora8 -p compute + cd /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/fedora/ + genimage -i eth0 -o fedora8 -p compute This would use the profile information from the /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/fedora/compute* files.