How to recreate and download ETICS images for EMI

How to recreate an ETICS SL5 or SL6 image

The ETICS images are a basic installation of SL5 or SL6 plus EPEL repositories.

Detailed steps:

• 1.- Download and install the SL image: http://www.scientificlinux.org/download
  • Current ETICS systems is using SL5.5 and SL6.1 versions
  • During the installation, uncheck ALL packages. In this way you will get a clean machine with only the minimum set of packages installed
• 2.- Add the EPEL repositories from the web site (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_from_the_EPEL_software_repository.3F)
• 3.- Install these packages
  • ntp
  • cvs
  • subversion
  • rpmdevtools
• 4.- Run this command: rpmdev-rmdevelrpms
  • More information about this command: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#rpmdev-rmdevelrpms
• 5.- These packages are considered the minimum build environment. Please check if they are present in yours installation
  • bash
  • bzip2
  • coreutils
  • cpio
  • diffutils
  • fedora-release
  • findutils
  • gawk
  • gcc
  • gcc-c++
  • grep
  • gzip
  • info
  • make
  • patch
  • redhat-rpm-config
  • rpm-build
  • sed
  • shadow-utils
  • tar
  • unzip
  • util-linux-ng
  • which
  • xz
• 6.- Install the ETICS client: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ETICS/ClientHowTo

How to recreate an ETICS Debian 6 image

• 1.- Download and install the Debian 6 image
  • During the installation, uncheck ALL packages. In this way you will get a clean machine with only the minimum set of packages installed
• 2.- Use the official Debian repository (by default)
• 3.- Install these packages:
  • python
  • python2.6-dev
  • libssl-dev
  • daemon
  • subversion
  • cvs
  • lsb-release
  • chrpath
  • debhelper
  • rsync
• 4.- Install the ETICS client: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ETICS/ClientHowTo

How to download the ETICS images

The ETICS team will provide the HyperV images and a list of tools to convert the images from this format to the most used ones.

List of free tools:

• VirtualDiskConvert: http://discutils.codeplex.com/
• VMware vCenter Converter: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/4_0

Image repository:

• SL5 HyperV image: http://eticssoft.web.cern.ch/eticssoft/internal/public/MinimalImages/SL5_MinimalImage.zip (ask ETICS team for the root pass)
• SL6 HyperV image: http://eticssoft.web.cern.ch/eticssoft/internal/public/MinimalImages/SL6_MinimalImage.zip (ask ETICS team for the root pass)

-- AndresAbadRodriguez - 24-Aug-2011