I am sorry for being so dense, but I can't tell what is happening. This is building a thumbdrive installation by using a Linux system to construct the contents for the thumb drive?
The ISO is openned with 7-zip and three files are copied o the root of the thumb drive. What was it that YUMI put on the thumbdrive? Can something similar be done from a Windows 7 system? ray Message: 16 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:24:08 -0500 From: Shawn Henderson <[email protected]> To: Ian Campbell <[email protected]>, Mike McClurg <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Eric <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] [Xen-API] Installing XCP from USB thumb drive Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Here's how we did it (from my engineer): What we did to get XCP install from a USB stick. Step #1) Download all the things YUMI. (I used 0.0.5.8 but any version should work) - http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ XCP install ISO - http://www.xen.org/download/xcp/index.html Step #2) Plug in your USB stick (the rest assumes the drive is assigned a letter of D:) Step #3a) Run YUMI Step #3b) Agree to the license Agreement Step #3c) Select D: for YUMI Step 1 Step #3d) Select the option ?Try an Unlisted ISO? for YUMI Step 2 Step #3e) Browse to the downloaded XCP ISO from step 1 and select it for YUMI Step 3 Step #3f) Mash create and wait. At this point it is going to bloat things a little by having the full iso on the USB stuck but who cares right? Step #4) Open the ISO downloaded in Step 1 using your favorite archive program. (I use 7-zip) Copy the folders packages.main and packages.transfer-vm to the root of d:\ and finally copy the file XS-REPOSITORY-LIST to the root of D:\ Step #5) PROFIT? ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Campbell [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 7:04 AM To: Mike McClurg Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Eric Subject: Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-users] Installing XCP from USB thumb drive On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 12:51 +0100, Mike McClurg wrote: > 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 $@ $(STAGING_main); > > Does that look like it'll generate a thumb-drive-bootable ISO? The scripts which create the Debian CD sets use case "$MKISOFS" in *xorriso*) add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-isohybrid-mbr syslinux/usr/lib/syslinux/isohdpfx.bin" add_mkisofs_opt $CDDIR/../$N.mkisofs_opts "-partition_offset 16" which I think is related to this. I think it is basically doing isohybrid at creation time instead of post processing. It seems (and this corresponds with my vague memory of seeing the discussion on debian-cd) like it needs xorriso rather than mkisofs (which IIRC is deprecated). Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-api mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api
