[SOLVED] Installing/adding extra packages to Proxmox AIS ISO image (FRR + configs) #4

[hvisage]

Edit: xorisso solution

I have this "use case" where the PVEs will have a meshed networking setup, ie. the transit/host/production network not connected to a switch/LAN/L2 with DHCP/PXE server somewhere broadcast domain reachable, but only PtPlinks in the cluster and up to the routers (sometimes the PVE is a hop or 2 away from the upstream router, but the mesh have various routes)

The only "switched" network is the IPMI network, and in this case the SuperMicro X10DRT-PS (and the upgraded H12 versions etc.) have the IPMI in a *dedicated* fashion only, and NOT shared like some of the other systems with onboard 1GigE RJ45 network, these units only have AIOM/SIOM network modules, thus nothing to connect the IPMI/BMC dedicated port to the host's networking stack.

What is available on the IPMI side, where I do the OOB control, is the ability to push a Floppy 1.4MB image to the BMC (that being the Promox-ais labeled partition for the answers.toml file, and theoretically I could drop some small files and scripts there), and a CIFS/SMB mounted ISO image (which I've already modified for ProxMox automated Installation, and having used the PVE ISO to PXE image, I've also got a version modified/booting via PXE BUT in the greenfields, that would not be possible given the meshed networking setup)

So the question I have:

What do I need do/add/fix to have the automated installation install also FRR? I believe the postinstallation/at-boot scripts could do the configuration, but I need the FRR installed first.
I do notice the dists and proxmox directories with the .deb files but I need to also know which other files to edit to add the extra packages?

 

[cheiss]

Hi,

What do I need do/add/fix to have the automated installation install also FRR? I believe the postinstallation/at-boot scripts could do the configuration, but I need the FRR installed first.

from a quick read, using the newly-introduced first-book hook script seems like the right way to accomplish this.

You can use ordering = "fully-up" and provide a script (either baking it into the ISO or fetching it via HTTP(S) from somewhere) which then simply runs apt to install the required packages for FRR and adding/modifying any configuration files as needed.

 

[hvisage]

Hi Cheiss

from a quick read, using the newly-introduced first-book hook script seems like the right way to accomplish this.

You can use ordering = "fully-up" and provide a script (either baking it into the ISO or fetching it via HTTP(S) from somewhere) which then simply runs apt to install the required packages for FRR and adding/modifying any configuration files as needed.

I've gone and read through and looked/considered that earlier today, BUT before I haven't installed the FRR (or anything else IS-IS) and have the IGP running to get a default gateway, I don't have "internet access" to fetch/apt anything. That is the reason I need the FRR package to be baked into the ISO so I could use that hookscript to install and configure BEFORE networking

What I perhaps need to reiterate: the ISO is mounted on the IPMI network, that is "isolated" from the host, so the host is basically a device in a meshed network, with a CD rom and Floppy plugged in, that needs to be able to install and configure the IS-IS before it can talk anywhere. (I actually wished that the SDN stuff was installed by default, would've solved this problem I'm having)

Edit, logged: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5952

 

[hvisage]

Okay, the solution (after I've re-read Perl of Install.pm )

rm added-proxmox-ve_8.3-1-auto-from-partition.iso
xorriso -indev proxmox-ve_8.3-1-auto-from-partition.iso -outdev added-proxmox-ve_8.3-1-auto-from-partition.iso  \
  -map /root/frr /proxmox/packages  \
  -boot_image any keep

Where /root/frr contains the Debian package files you want to install (with their dependencies if not already installed)
and proxmox-ve_8.3-1-auto-from-partition.iso is the ISO file after you've done the PVE auto install assistant stuff.