Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Create bootable ISO that can be copied to a USB key

[Kraus, Dave (GE Healthcare)]

Pungi uses isohybrid (from the syslinux package) down in the bowels to do that. 
At least that's what I found when I deconstructed its methodology.

That's how I'm getting a USB-bootable .iso file for our spin, anyway...

The algorithm I'm using is:

mkisofs
isohybrid
implantisomd5

Your mileage may vary...

On 5/24/18, 1:35 PM, "owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov on behalf 
of Pat Riehecky"  wrote:

Hello,

Are you creating the custom iso with pungi or a different tool?

Pat

On 05/24/2018 01:17 PM, Bill wrote:
> I am creating a custom installation ISO using kickstart.  This install 
ISO is based on SL 7.2.
>
> When I burn a DVD from this ISO I can boot from the DVD and the install 
menu come up as expected.
>
> When I use dd to copy the ISO to a USB key and try to boot from the USB 
key the install menu does not appear and the system boots from the hard drive.
>
> I tried using dd to copy the SL7.2 ISO to a USB key.  When I try to boot 
from this USB key the install menu comes up as expected.
>
> What files on the SL7.2 have to do with booting from the USB key?
>
> Is there a mkisofs option I should be using to make booting USB key work?

-- 
Pat Riehecky

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
www.fnal.gov
www.scientificlinux.org

Re: Proper forum suggestion?

[Kraus, Dave (GE Healthcare)]

I just did a quick look in my un-deleted emails, and didn’t find your question. 
However, per Bonnie on the SL team, there was a problem with the list where not 
all messages were getting sent to the list. If your question was asked prior to 
June 16, you may want to resend.


On 6/26/17, 1:00 PM, "owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov on behalf 
of Stan Orlov"  wrote:

Greetings,

We've just installed Scientific Linux with the hope to migrate some of our 
solutions from Windows to Linux. I ran into a problem with VNC and posted to 
this list, but nobody replied to it.  I am stuck and really hope to find 
guidance online. Can anyone suggest a list/forum that would be better suited 
for such questions? 

Cheers,
Stan

Re: EXT: Connie Sieh, founder of Scientific Linux, retires from Fermilab

[Kraus, Dave (GE Healthcare)]

Best wishes from your friends up here at GE HealthCare. Thank you for all
your patience and help with our little projects.

Whenever you make your way to Waukesha, stop by for that tour we¹ve been
promising all this time.

 - Dave, Jim, Dave, and Steve

On 2/24/17, 3:52 PM, "owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov on
behalf of Bonnie King"  wrote:

>Friends,
>
>The Scientific Linux team is at once happy and sad to announce Connie
>Sieh's retirement after 23 years. Today is her last full-time day at
>Fermilab.
>
>Connie Sieh founded the Fermi Linux and Scientific Linux projects and
>has worked on them continuously. She has sometimes preferred to toil
>behind the scenes and leave public announcements to others, but has
>always been a driving force behind the projects.
>
>The Scientific Linux story started in the late 1990s when Connie's group
>explored using commodity PC hardware and Linux as an alternative to
>commercial servers with proprietary UNIX operating systems. From the
>distributions available at the time, Red Hat Linux was chosen.
>
>In 1998, Connie announced Fermi Linux at HEPiX, a semi-annual meeting of
>High Energy Physics IT staff. Fermi Linux was a customized and
>re-branded version of Red Hat Linux with some tweaks for integration
>with the Fermilab environment. It also introduced an installer
>modification called Workgroups, a framework to customize package sets
>for use at different sites and for different purposes. The Workgroups
>concept lives on today in the form of Contexts for SL7.
>
>In October 2003 TUV changed their product model and introduced Red Hat
>Enterprise Linux. Enterprise Linux was no longer freely distributed in
>binary form, but sources remained available.
>
>Connie and her colleagues started building from these sources, creating
>one of the first Enterprise Linux rebuilds. A preview, dubbed HEPL, was
>presented at spring HEPiX 2004. In May 2004, the rebuild was released as
>Scientific Linux. The name was chosen to reflect the goals and user base
>of the product.
>
>Our colleagues at CERN collaborated, customizing and using Scientific
>Linux as Scientific Linux CERN (SLC). SL became a standard OS for
>Scientific Computing in High Energy Physics at Fermilab, CERN and beyond.
>
>SL is freely available to the general public, and is a popular
>Enterprise Linux rebuild. As a result, it has built a community outside
>of Fermilab and HEP.
>
>With gratitude, the Scientific Linux team would like to recognize
>Connie's many years of service and her immense contribution to the
>project she founded.
>
>Connie's outstanding technical and non-technical judgement are the
>foundation of Scientific Linux. Her legacy will continue to inform the
>way we run SL and we hope she'll remain as a collaborator.
>
>All the best to Connie in her well-earned retirement. She will be dearly
>missed!
>
>-- 
>Bonnie King
>Group Leader
>Scientific Linux & Architecture Management
>
>Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
>www.fnal.gov

RE: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Any rumors on rhel 7?

[Kraus, Dave (GE Healthcare)]

Q1: Start in runlevel 3

Q2: Dependent on system configuration. One way to check a little easier is:

   chkconfig --list| awk '{print $1,$5,$7}' and see. 

On the system this Windows VM is running under, the only service that would not 
be run in runlevel 3 was spice-vdagentd. Which makes sense.

Your mileage my vary...

-Original Message-
From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov 
[mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Konstantin 
Olchanski
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 12:13 PM
To: Jeffrey Anderson
Cc: SL Users
Subject: Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Any rumors on rhel 7?

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 09:56:53AM -0700, Jeffrey Anderson wrote:
 On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Konstantin Olchanski 
 olcha...@triumf.cawrote:

  My prediction is that it is going to be like the HAL/UDEV story ...

  Also same as the NetworkManager introduction ...
 
 I don't necessarily disagree with your worries about the future.  But 
 I must add that the networking config scripts for our favorite distro 
 and its cousins have been located in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts 
 for many years, long before the advent of NetworkManager.
 


Now for a quick quiz.

In SL6.4, how do you prevent Xorg from starting on boot?

(Hint: in SL5, you comment it out in /etc/inittab)

P.S.

Those who answer: change run level from 5 to 3, get a second quiz:

quickly, when you do this, what other services become disabled?


--
Konstantin Olchanski
Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada

RE: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Any rumors on rhel 7?

[Kraus, Dave (GE Healthcare)]

I did say, dependent on system configuration.

X11 is not treated as a standard service on a Red Hat box. (Debian, for 
example, does.)

If you've installed services outside of Red Hat's management, then see above 
re:system configuration. 

-Original Message-
From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov 
[mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Konstantin 
Olchanski
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 12:51 PM
To: Kraus, Dave (GE Healthcare)
Cc: SL Users
Subject: Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Any rumors on rhel 7?

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:22:10PM +, Kraus, Dave (GE Healthcare) wrote:
 Q1: Start in runlevel 3
 
 Q2: Dependent on system configuration. One way to check a little easier is:
 
chkconfig --list| awk '{print $1,$5,$7}' and see. 
 

(I did ask for the quick answer, not the correct answer)

chkconfig does not show if X11 is started at what run level. what else does it 
not show?

Hint: ls -l /etc/init

-- 
Konstantin Olchanski
Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada