Sles on BAFM

Installserver: Regenerate PXE base menu

Fri, 08 Aug 2014 08:27:12 +0000

Well, here’s the promised script to regenerate the main PXE menu based on the menu entries created by register-suse and register-vmware.

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#!/bin/bash

TFTP_DIR=/srv/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg

mkdir -p $TFTP_DIR &>/dev/null

# Iterate through the pxelinux.cfg directory and recreate the index menues.
for dir in $( find $TFTP_DIR -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ); do
 echo "Generating summary menu for: $dir"
 count=1

 cat > $dir.menu << EOF

 MENU TITLE Linux Installationservices
 MENU BACKGROUND addons/background.png

 MENU COLOR screen 37;40 #80ffffff #00000000
 MENU COLOR border 0 #ffffffff #ee000000 std
 MENU COLOR title 0 #ffffffff #ee000000 std
 MENU COLOR unsel 0 #ffffffff #ee000000 std
 MENU COLOR sel 0 #ffffffff #85000000 std
 MENU COLOR scrollbar 30;44 #40000000 #00000000
 MENU COLOR tabmsg 0 #ee000000 #ffffffff std
 MENU COLOR cmdmark 0 #ff00ff00 #00000000 std
 MENU COLOR cmdline 0 #ee000000 #ffffffff std
 MENU COLOR timeout_msg 0 #ee000000 #ffffffff std
 MENU COLOR timeout 0 #ee000000 #ffffffff std
 MENU COLOR disabled 0 #ffffffff #ee000000 std
 MENU COLOR pwdheader 0 #ff000000 #99ffffff rev
 MENU COLOR pwdborder 0 #ff000000 #99ffffff rev
 MENU COLOR pwdentry 0 #ff000000 #99ffffff rev
 MENU COLOR hotkey 0 #ff00ff00 #ee000000 std
 MENU COLOR hotsel 0 #ffffffff #85000000 std
EOF

 for file in $( find $dir -mindepth 1 -name "*.menu" | sort -r ); do
 FILE_LABEL="$( grep ^#LABEL $file | cut -d -f2- )"
 FILE_OSARCH="$( grep ^#OSARCH $file | cut -d -f2- )"

 cat >> $dir.menu << EOF

 LABEL $count
 MENU LABEL $FILE_LABEL ($FILE_OSARCH)
 KERNEL addons/vesamenu.c32

 APPEND pxelinux.cfg/${dir##*/}/${file##*/}
EOF

 count=$(( $count + 1 ))
 done

done

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Tue Jul 24, 17:18:35 [0] > ll -R /srv/tftpboot/
/srv/tftpboot/:
total 28K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 20 2011 addons/
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Jun 24 2011 boot/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Jul 20 13:14 pxelinux.cfg/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K Oct 7 2009 pxelinux.0
/srv/tftpboot/addons:
total 280K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16K Dec 28 2009 background.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23K Dec 28 2009 background-sles.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24K Dec 28 2009 background-suse.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20K Dec 28 2009 background-vmware.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48K Oct 7 2009 mboot.c32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142K Oct 7 2009 vesamenu.c32
/srv/tftpboot/boot:
total 20K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jun 24 2011 esx/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 14 2009 firmware/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Dec 14 2011 opensuse/
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Mar 9 17:28 sles/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 7 2009 tests/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/esx:
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 24 2011 4.1-348481/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/esx/4.1-348481:
total 81M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 79M Jun 24 2011 initrd.img
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1.5M Jun 24 2011 vmlinuz
/srv/tftpboot/boot/firmware:
total 4.3M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.5M Oct 14 2009 fdboot.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20K Oct 14 2009 memdisk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.5M Oct 14 2009 qmh2462_1.76.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.5M Oct 14 2009 qmh2462_1.81.img
/srv/tftpboot/boot/opensuse:
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jun 20 2011 11.3/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jun 20 2011 11.4/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Dec 14 2011 12.1/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/opensuse/11.3:
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 20 2011 x64/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 20 2011 x86/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/opensuse/11.3/x64:
total 32M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 28M Jun 20 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3.8M Jun 20 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/opensuse/11.3/x86:
total 32M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 28M Jun 20 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3.7M Jun 20 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/opensuse/11.4:
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 20 2011 x64/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 20 2011 x86/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/opensuse/11.4/x64:
total 37M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 33M Jun 20 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M Jun 20 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/opensuse/11.4/x86:
total 37M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 33M Jun 20 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3.9M Jun 20 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/opensuse/12.1:
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 14 2011 x64/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 14 2011 x86/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/opensuse/12.1/x64:
total 43M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 39M Dec 14 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.5M Dec 14 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/opensuse/12.1/x86:
total 43M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 38M Dec 14 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.4M Dec 14 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles:
total 32K
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jun 24 2011 10.2/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Sep 28 2011 10.3/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jun 17 2011 10.4/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jun 17 2011 11/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jun 17 2011 11.1/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jun 17 2011 11.1-vmware/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Mar 9 17:28 11.2/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jul 24 17:04 11.2-vmware/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/10.2:
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 24 2011 x64/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 24 2011 x86/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/10.2/x64:
total 11M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 9.0M Jun 24 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1.4M Jun 24 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/10.2/x86:
total 11M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 8.9M Jun 24 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M Jun 24 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/10.3:
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 28 2011 x64/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 28 2011 x86/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/10.3/x64:
total 12M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 11M Sep 28 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1.4M Sep 28 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/10.3/x86:
total 12M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 11M Sep 28 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M Sep 28 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/10.4:
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 17 2011 x64/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 17 2011 x86/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/10.4/x64:
total 13M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 12M Jun 17 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1.4M Jun 17 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/10.4/x86:
total 13M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 12M Jun 17 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M Jun 17 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11:
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 17 2011 x64/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 17 2011 x86/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11/x64:
total 24M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 21M Jun 17 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2.5M Jun 17 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11/x86:
total 23M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 21M Jun 17 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2.4M Jun 17 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11.1:
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 17 2011 x64/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 17 2011 x86/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11.1/x64:
total 27M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 23M Jun 17 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Jun 17 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11.1/x86:
total 26M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 23M Jun 17 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Jun 17 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11.1-vmware:
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 17 2011 x64/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 17 2011 x86/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11.1-vmware/x64:
total 27M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 23M Jun 17 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Jun 17 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11.1-vmware/x86:
total 26M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 23M Jun 17 2011 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3.1M Jun 17 2011 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11.2:
total 4.0k
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar 9 17:29 x64/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11.2/x64:
total 36M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 33M Mar 9 17:29 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3.7M Mar 9 17:29 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11.2-vmware:
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar 9 16:52 x64/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 24 17:05 x86/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11.2-vmware/x64:
total 36M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 33M Jul 20 12:46 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3.7M Jul 20 12:46 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/sles/11.2-vmware/x86:
total 35M
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 32M Jul 24 17:17 initrd
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3.6M Jul 24 17:17 linux
/srv/tftpboot/boot/tests:
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 7 2009 memtest/
/srv/tftpboot/boot/tests/memtest:
total 164K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157K Oct 7 2009 memtest86+-4.00
/srv/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg:
total 48K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0K Jun 20 2011 default
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 24 2011 esx/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3K Jul 24 17:18 esx.menu
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jun 20 2011 esxi/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1K Jul 24 17:18 esxi.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 423 Oct 20 2009 firmware.menu
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Dec 14 2011 opensuse/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 17:18 opensuse.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.6K Jun 4 2010 rescue.menu
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 24 17:05 sles/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7K Jul 24 17:18 sles.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 329 Oct 20 2009 tests.menu
/srv/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/esx:
total 8.0K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K Jun 24 2011 esx-4.1-260247.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K Jun 24 2011 esx-4.1-348481.menu
/srv/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/esxi:
total 4.0K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7K Jun 20 2011 esxi41.menu
/srv/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/opensuse:
total 24K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jun 20 2011 opensuse-11.3-x64.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jun 20 2011 opensuse-11.3-x86.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jun 20 2011 opensuse-11.4-x64.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jun 20 2011 opensuse-11.4-x86.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Dec 14 2011 opensuse-12.1-x64.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Dec 14 2011 opensuse-12.1-x86.menu
/srv/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/sles:
total 60K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 16:58 sles-10.2-x64.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 16:57 sles-10.2-x86.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 16:57 sles-10.3-x64.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 16:57 sles-10.3-x86.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 16:57 sles-10.4-x64.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 16:57 sles-10.4-x86.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 16:58 sles-11-x64.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 16:58 sles-11-x86.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 16:59 sles-11.1-vmware-x64.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 16:59 sles-11.1-vmware-x86.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 16:59 sles-11.1-x64.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 17:00 sles-11.1-x86.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 17:00 sles-11.2-vmware-x64.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 17:17 sles-11.2-vmware-x86.menu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.8K Jul 24 17:00 sles-11.2-x64.menu

VMware templates: post-processing for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:31:40 +0000

Well, I’ve been fiddling around with SLES and openSUSE VMware templates. I know it’s a stupid idea when you have a PXE server from which you could install this in a matter of minutes (seriously the SLES PXE installation takes about 5 minutes).

However, when dealing with DMZ’s (yeah, they exist!) you usually don’t have any PXE servers there. So I decided to go with simple VMware templates (like we do with Windows already), but had to iron out a few kinks.

Installserver: Publish a SLES/OpenSUSE ISO - register-suse

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:20:34 +0000

Well, I’ve been tinkering with a way to “unify” the way we deploy new OpenSUSE/SLES ISOs onto our installation server, once they are released. So here, I’ll show you the script I came up with:

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#!/bin/bash

TFTP_DIR=/srv/tftpboot
INSTSRC_DIR=/srv/instsrc

if [ -z $@ ] ; then
 echo "Usage: register-suse <path to iso-file> labelname"
 exit 1
fi

ISO_FILE=$1

mkdir /mnt/loop
mount -o loop $ISO_FILE /mnt/loop

# Determine ISO information
OS_LABEL="$( grep '^LABEL' /mnt/loop/content | cut -d -f10- )"
if [ -z "$OS_LABEL" ] ; then
 OS_LABEL="$( grep '^LABEL' /mnt/loop/content | cut -d -f2- | head -n1 )"
fi

OS_NAME="$( grep '^DISTRIBUTION' /mnt/loop/content | cut -d -f3- | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' )"

if [ -z "$OS_NAME" ] ; then
 OS_NAME="$( grep '^PRODUCT' /mnt/loop/content | cut -d -f2- | cut -d_ -f1-2 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' )"
fi

case "$OS_NAME" in
 suse_sle|suse_sles) OS_NAME=sles;;
esac

OS_RELEASE="$( grep ^VERSION /mnt/loop/content | awk '{ print $2 }' | cut -d- -f1 )"

if [ "$( echo $OS_LABEL | grep -i vmware )" != "" ] ; then
 OS_RELEASE="$OS_RELEASE-vmware"
fi

OS_ARCH="$( grep ^BASEARCHS /mnt/loop/content | awk '{ print $2 }' )"

if [ -z "$OS_ARCH" ] ; then
 OS_ARCH="$( grep ^DEFAULTBASE /mnt/loop/content | awk '{ print $2 }' )"
fi

OS_SHORTLABEL="$( grep ^SHORTLABEL /mnt/loop/content | awk '{ print $2 }' | cut -d( -f1 | sed -e "s,SLES-,SLES," -e "s,-, ,g" )"

case "$OS_ARCH" in
 i*86) OS_ARCH=x86;;
 x86_64) OS_ARCH=x64;;
esac

# Create directories
mkdir -p $TFTP_DIR/boot/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH
mkdir -p $TFTP_DIR/pxelinux.cfg/$OS_NAME
mkdir -p $INSTSRC_DIR/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH

# Copy CD/DVD content
rsync -av /mnt/loop/* $INSTSRC_DIR/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/

# Create the info file
cat > $INSTSRC_DIR/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/info <<EOF
Language: en_US
Keytable: de-lat1-nd
Install: http://install.home.barfoo.org/{INSTSRC_DIR//srv/}/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/
Autoyast: http://install.home.barfoo.org/autoyast/
Textmode: 1
EOF

# Copy the PXE boot file (initrd/kernel)
cp $INSTSRC_DIR/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/boot/*/loader/initrd
 $TFTP_DIR/boot/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/initrd

cp $INSTSRC_DIR/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/boot/*/loader/linux
 $TFTP_DIR/boot/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/linux

# Create the PXE boot menu
cat > $TFTP_DIR/pxelinux.cfg/$OS_NAME/$OS_NAME-$OS_RELEASE-$OS_ARCH.menu << EOF

#LABEL $OS_SHORTLABEL
#OSNAME $OS_NAME
#OSARCH $OS_ARCH

MENU TITLE Linux Installationservices
MENU BACKGROUND addons/background-suse.png

MENU COLOR screen 37;40 #80ffffff #00000000
MENU COLOR border 0 #ffffffff #ee000000 std
MENU COLOR title 0 #ffffffff #ee000000 std
MENU COLOR unsel 0 #ffffffff #ee000000 std
MENU COLOR sel 0 #ffffffff #85000000 std
MENU COLOR scrollbar 30;44 #40000000 #00000000
MENU COLOR tabmsg 0 #ee000000 #ffffffff std
MENU COLOR cmdmark 0 #ff00ff00 #00000000 std
MENU COLOR cmdline 0 #ee000000 #ffffffff std
MENU COLOR timeout_msg 0 #ee000000 #ffffffff std
MENU COLOR timeout 0 #ee000000 #ffffffff std
MENU COLOR disabled 0 #ffffffff #ee000000 std
MENU COLOR pwdheader 0 #ff000000 #99ffffff rev
MENU COLOR pwdborder 0 #ff000000 #99ffffff rev
MENU COLOR pwdentry 0 #ff000000 #99ffffff rev
MENU COLOR hotkey 0 #ff00ff00 #ee000000 std
MENU COLOR hotsel 0 #ffffffff #85000000 std

LABEL DESC
 MENU LABEL $OS_LABEL ($OS_ARCH)
 MENU DISABLE

MENU SEPARATOR

LABEL autoyast
 MENU LABEL ^Automatisierte Installation
 KERNEL boot/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/linux
 APPEND initrd=boot/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/initrd info=http://install.home.barfoo.org/${INSTSRC_DIR//srv/}/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/info splash=native ramdisk_size=65535 vga=791 barrier=off

LABEL netinst
 MENU LABEL ^Netzwerkbasierte Installation
 KERNEL boot/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/linux
 APPEND initrd=boot/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/initrd install=http://install.home.barfoo.org/${INSTSRC_DIR//srv/}/$OS_NAME/$OS_RELEASE/$OS_ARCH/ splash=native ramdisk_size=65535 vga=791 barrier=off

MENU SEPARATOR

LABEL back
 MENU LABEL <-- ^Vorherige Ansicht
 KERNEL addons/vesamenu.c32
 APPEND pxelinux.cfg/$OS_NAME.menu
EOF

umount /mnt/loop
rmdir /mnt/loop

This also needs a second script, as this will only create a menu entry, not the menu itself. You’ll find the script in the next post!

SLES11-1 and updated multipath-tools

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 10:15:21 +0000

Well, after I scripted the installation the other day, I tried installing SLES11.1-Updates to the freshly installed systems. Guess what ? The thing broke. Initially (it was late Friday afternoon - like 6 PM - before my one week vacation) I didn’t have much time to debug the issue, so I sat down last week and looked at the issue.

During the installation, when first starting multipath via command line, the scsi-mpatha device appears, and each and every occurance of this is subsequentially being used (and other stuff replaced by this actually) during the whole installation phase.