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With the provisioning services enabled, the next step is to define and customize a system image that can subsequently be
used to provision one or more {\em compute} nodes. The following subsections highlight this process.

\subsubsection{Build initial BOS image} \label{sec:assemble_bos}
The following steps illustrate the process to build a minimal, default image for use with \xCAT{}. To begin, you will
first need to have a local copy of the ISO image available for the underlying OS. In this recipe, the relevant ISO image
is \texttt{SLE-12-SP4-SERVER-DVD-X86\_64-GM-DVD1.iso}. We initialize the image
creation process using the \texttt{copycds} command assuming that the necessary ISO image is available locally in
\texttt{\$\{iso\_path\}} as follows:

% begin_ohpc_run
% ohpc_comment_header Initialize OS images for use with xCAT \ref{sec:assemble_bos}
\begin{lstlisting}[language=bash,literate={-}{-}1,keywords={},upquote=true,keepspaces,literate={BOSVER}{\baseos{}}1]
[sms](*\#*) copycds ${iso_path}/SLE-12-SP3-Server-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso
\end{lstlisting}
% end_ohpc_run

\noindent Once completed, several OS images should be available for use within \xCAT{}. These can be queried via:

\begin{lstlisting}[language=bash,literate={-}{-}1,keywords={},upquote=true,keepspaces,literate={BOSVER}{\baseos{}}1]
# Query available images
[sms](*\#*) lsdef -t osimage
sles12.2-x86_64-install-compute  (osimage)
sles12.2-x86_64-install-service  (osimage)
sles12.2-x86_64-netboot-compute  (osimage)
sles12.2-x86_64-statelite-compute  (osimage)
\end{lstlisting}

In this example, we leverage the stateless ({\em netboot}) image for compute nodes and proceed by using
\texttt{genimage} to initialize a chroot-based install. Note that the previous query highlights the existence of other
provisioning images as well. Please consult available xCAT
\href{https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/}{\color{blue} documentation} if interested in using an alternative
stateful or statelite approach.
%The \texttt{CHROOT} environment variable highlights the path and is used by
%subsequent commands to augment the basic installation.
\newpage

% begin_ohpc_run
% ohpc_comment_header Create chroot based compute image \ref{sec:assemble_bos}
\begin{lstlisting}[language=bash,literate={-}{-}1,keywords={},upquote=true,keepspaces,literate={OSIMAGE}{\osimage{}}1]
# Save chroot location for compute image
[sms](*\#*) export CHROOT=/install/netboot/OSIMAGE/x86_64/compute/rootimg/
# Build initial chroot image
[sms](*\#*) genimage OSIMAGE-x86_64-netboot-compute
\end{lstlisting}
% end_ohpc_run
