Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-users] Installing XCP from USB thumb drive

[Mike McClurg <mike.mcclurg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/06/12 12:18, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On 22 Jun 2012, at 12:12, Mike McClurg wrote:
>
> > On 22/06/12 11:59, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 11:27 +0100, Mike McClurg wrote:
> > > > On 21/06/12 00:05, Eric wrote:
> > > > > Is CD-ROM/DVD-ROM the only way to install XCP?
> > > > I'm sure you could dd the iso to a thumb drive in the same way you would
> > > > any other OS.
> > > This depends on the iso having being created with special options though
> > > -- is that done for XCP isos?
> > I have no idea, what options does an ISO need to be created with? Can
> > you repackage an ISO with those options?
> If it still exists, packaging.hg creates the XenServer ISO with the correct
> options for PXE boot. XCP probably uses the same build scripts...are they
> open-source?
Those scripts don't contain any license information that I can see, and 
we haven't published them publicly. I'm all for making XCP easier to 
build outside of Citrix, but I don't think that thrusting our build 
system on the world is the right way to do it ;)
Anyway, here is the blurb that generates the iso:

mkisofs -joliet -joliet-long -r \
   -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat \
   -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
   -sort $(MY_OBJ_DIR)/sort.main.list \
   -V "$(PLATFORM_NAME)-$(PLATFORM_VERSION) $(LABEL_main)" \
   -o $@ $(STAGING_main);

Does that look like it'll generate a thumb-drive-bootable ISO?

Mike

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