From: egan at sense.n. (E. Ford) - 2008-09-18 12:19:54
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Vallard posted to the Wiki xCAT + SLES netboot notes. It does work, just not as advertised in the docs. Hopefully this will be addressed in 2.0.3 (to be released very soon). To add packages you can either put them in the package list and regen your image (it will not regen, but will just add the new packages--nice) or you can use rpm --root or yum --installroot to target your image directory with new packages. Or, you can just cd there and use tar, cpio, cp, etc..., anything you like to put "stuff" in there. Then just pack it and boot it. If you need to run commands like chkconfig, then cd to the image directory and type chroot ., then exit when done. I posted about GPFS in another reply. > -----Original Message----- > From: xca...@li... > [mailto:xca...@li...] On Behalf Of Torsten > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:42 AM > To: xCAT Users Mailing list > Subject: [xcat-user] SLES10.2 + netboot + GPFS + other things > Importance: High > > > Hello xCAT users, > > as I mentioned already, xCAT2.0.2 and netboot on SLES10.2 > doesn't work that fine. But I'm sure it will be fixed in near > future. Anyway, is there any experience in adding other > packages to such a netboot environment, like GPFS and > probably Infiniband? I never made it on a xCAT2 based > solution. And I have a customer asking for exactly this > solution. And the first time I was sure SLES10.2 and xCAT > works - but it doesn't. So, for now I'll be more careful when > talking about addons like GPFS and Infiniband. > > Any ideas, thoughts? > > Thanks > > Torsten > _______________________________________________ > xcat-user mailing list > xca...@li... > http://www.xcat.org/mailman/listinfo/xcat-user |