Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Doc/BasicConfig/AII

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Apr 14, 2008, 11:41:05 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

jouvin

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+This is a quick introduction to AII configuration. AII is Quattor component in charge of producing Kickstart configuration file used for initial installation.
+
+Configuration specific to initial installation is made of 2 parts :
+ * AII_xxx variables used to configure base environment (keyboard, language...). This works both for v1 and v2.
+ * Filesystems and block devices definitions : this is specific to AII v2.
+ 
+== AII Variables ==
+
+
+== File Systems and Block Devices ==
+
+In AII v2, block devices and file systems are declared separatly. Filesystems are declared as an ordered list allowing to customize different aspect of a file system (mount point, mount options, format, ...). Each file system in the list is described as a nlist. One property in the nlist describing a file system is `block device` : its value is an entry in the structure describing block devices (physical disk, logical volumes, ...). To add or modify a filesystem on a system, it is recommended to use 'fileystem_mod` function. An example is :
+
+{{{
+"/system/filesystems" = filesystem_mod(
+  list(nlist ("block_device", "partitions/" + DISK_PART_BOOT,
+              "mountpoint", "/boot",
+              "format", true,
+              "mount", true,
+              "preserve", false,
+              "type","ext2"),
+       nlist ("block_device", "partitions/" + DISK_PART_SWAP,
+              "format", true,
+              "mount", true,
+              "preserve", false,
+              "type","swap",
+              "mountpoint","swap"),
+       nlist ("block_device", "partitions/" + DISK_PART_ROOT,
+              "format", true,
+              "preserve", false,
+              "mount", true,
+              "type","ext3",
+              "mountpoint","/"),
+       nlist ("block_device", "logical_volumes/usrvol",
+              "format", true,
+              "preserve", false,
+              "mount", true,
+              "type","ext3",
+              "mountpoint","/usr"),
+);
+}}}
+
+Look at [source:templates/trunk/sites/example/filesystems/glite.tpl sites/example/filesystems/glite.tpl] for more details.
+