[Planetlab-users] BootCD Building.

[Nithin Kumar Dara]

Marc E. Fiuczynski wrote:
> 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.
I have already dowloaded the ISO image for X. And i burned the same 
image onto a CD. But when i boot it with this CD it is still looking for 
floppy disk for the node configuration file..
so i have tried this alternative of building it from 
sources...unfortunately this also failed.


Is there solution after from these two??

-nithind
> 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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