[Planetlab-users] BootCD Building.

[Marc E. Fiuczynski]

Dear Nithin,

First you do not need to build your own bootcd.  There is a shell script 
within our bootcd CVS module that you execute with the ISO image and 
your node's plnode.txt (configuration) file as arguments.  I can give 
you the instruction for that, but we have an even easier option: just 
login to www.planet-lab.org, go to the node details page for the node in 
question, under the "download" section of that page select the "Download 
ISO image for X" where X will be the hostname of your node.  This gives 
you a ISO image with the appropriate plnode.txt file already properly 
incorporated, which you then just need to burn to a CDrom.

Best regards,
Marc

Nithin Kumar Dara wrote:
> Marc E. Fiuczynski wrote:
>> Hi Nithin,
>>
>> Are you trying to build a custom BootCD with a plnode.txt 
>> (configuration) file on it?  Or are you trying to accomplish 
>> something else?
>>
> Yes. Iam trying to build a custom BootCD with a plnode.txt file on it.
> When i download the sources, i go into the configurations/default/
> and make a copy of that directory as "mycustomcd"
> In the mycustomcd/ i change the configuration file.
> Corresponding to the NODE_CONFIGURATION_FILE parameter, i have the 
> path of the plnode.txt file
>
> Afterwards, i go into the root dir of planet-lab and run
> ./build.sh build mycustomcd
>
> Then it stops giving the following error:-
>
> ~/planetlab/bootcd_v3 ~/planetlab/bootcd_v3
> Error: Could not find sources in either . or ..
>
> After  analysing the build.sh file, i found out that prep.sh is 
> causing the above error.
>
> please help me in finding a solution to build my own custom CD.
>
>
> -regards
> nithind
>
>
>
>
>> Best regards,
>> Marc
>> PlanetLab R&D team
>>
>> Nithin Kumar Dara wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Iam trying to build the custom ISO image for the BootCD by following 
>>> the instruction given in the below link
>>>
>>> http://www.planet-lab.org/doc/bootcd#id225265
>>>
>>>
>>> however when i run
>>>
>>> ./build.sh build mycustomcd
>>>
>>> iam getting errors
>>> that sources are not found either in . or ../
>>>
>>> after analysing build.sh, i found out it is calling prep.sh where 
>>> its checking for build directory. However while checking out of the 
>>> cvs repository didn't download any build directory into the base 
>>> directory.
>>>
>>> If anyone has experienced the same problem before, please do reply 
>>> how to rectify it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Nithin Kumar Dara
>>> www.it.iitb.ac.in/~nithind
>>>
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