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  • From: "David Kowis" <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Automated ISO generation (was: [Cauldron] Meeting Planning)
  • Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:25:02 -0600 (CST)

Another side note: I'll be able to put together sufficient funds/computer
parts around the middle of this month to order an athlon XP 2400 and 1GB
o' DDR for a testing/development box that I'll put together. The amt of
hard drive space that will be available might be somewhat limited. But
it'll be at least 4GB. I can set up /var/spool/sorcery to be mounted via
NFS so that's no problem. I'm thinking it might be wise to wait until I
can set up this development box before mucking with the ISO generation
stuff. I'm not sure I've got enough power connections left in my computer
for another hard drive to give enough space for the ISO generation. I
suppose I could create a directory, but for some reason I would rather put
it on a seperate drive. I'm probably just crazy, considering that now I'm
rambling....

Anyway, I'm going to order some parts online to complete a development box
around the middle of the month. Will keep posted, unless theres an
objection :)

David
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<quote who="Karsten Behrmann">
>> If these ISO generations can be completely automated, I've got a pretty
>> good upload (1Mbit) and I would be willing to do it. I run my own
>> webserver so I could provide some small amount of hosting. Perhaps as a
>> backup or something.
>
> Sounds good.
> I have written some scripts that pretty much automate ISO generation,
> however, they require to be run as root. (mounting loopback, mknod)
> I'll have to do some more testing and tweaking, but then they would be
> ready.
>
> Requirements would be to have a directory into which we can chroot
> with a /dev (can be static) and a /proc. If there is another SMGL on the
> box
> having a mount --bind /var/spool/sorcery /sub/system/var/spool/sorcery
> will be helpful.
>
> The system itself needs 700MB (w/o /var/spool/sorcery) on this box,
> +200-300MB for the ISO itself.
>
> I hope maintenance can be minimal, I'd be happy to do maintenance with
> ssh or have you do it, I can write a few minimal scripts
> to regularly update everything needed.
>
> For network, we'd need access to the perforce server and access to
> the sources (per regular wget or by leapforward_url to one of your boxes)
>
> Computing time depends on your box, it would be compiling sources
> for updates and fiddling the ISO together. This last step takes 80 seconds
> of time (33 seconds computing time) on my Athlon-XP 1600.
>
> Thank you for your help,
> So Far,
> Karsten Behrmann
>
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