Recent changes to UbuntuHowto

UbuntuHowto modified by Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:11:04 -0000

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-**\----- NOTE: THIS INFORMATION IS STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT/CONSTRUCTION -----**
+**This doc is deprecated. See [Ubuntu_Quick_Start].**

 Ubuntu support has been enhanced.

UbuntuHowto modified by Arif Ali

Arif Ali — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:10:59 -0000

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   * makedns failing (**add bind user for ubuntu specific, submitted for review**)(11/06/2012) 
   * 'rbootseq' is not supported when ivm is the HCP 
   * xcat "makedns" command broke for ubuntu (**add bind user for ubuntu specific, submitted for review**) 
-  * /etc/resolv.conf is overwritten on managed nodes whose IP is configured by DHCP 
+  * /etc/resolv.conf is overwritten on managed nodes whose IP is configured by DHCP ** Just make sure that the interfaces are not dhcp **
   * Moving mypostscript.post from /tmp to /var/tmp for other distros (**This has already been implemented xCAT team**) 
   * PostScript support for ubuntu 
     * xcatserver

UbuntuHowto modified by Arif Ali

Arif Ali — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:10:58 -0000

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@@ -312,9 +312,9 @@
   * VNC password set after CN deploy (using Ubuntu Server image) 
   * rscan doesn't work for kvm nodes 
   * xCAT-UI does not allow login 
-  * makedns failing 
+  * makedns failing (**add bind user for ubuntu specific, submitted for review**)(11/06/2012) 
   * 'rbootseq' is not supported when ivm is the HCP 
-  * xcat "makedns" command broke for ubuntu 
+  * xcat "makedns" command broke for ubuntu (**add bind user for ubuntu specific, submitted for review**) 
   * /etc/resolv.conf is overwritten on managed nodes whose IP is configured by DHCP 
   * Moving mypostscript.post from /tmp to /var/tmp for other distros (**This has already been implemented xCAT team**) 
   * PostScript support for ubuntu

UbuntuHowto modified by Arif Ali

Arif Ali — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:10:56 -0000

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 The enhancements encompass being able to provision KVM client and typical clients stateful and stateless compute nodes with Ubuntu 10.10, RHEL 6.0, and SLES 11 from a KVM client Ubuntu 10.10 xCAT management node. 

+### List of OSs that work as MN
+
+The following OSs have been tested to work as MN, At this moment of time debian 7 (wheezy) and ubuntu 12.04 (precise) are unsupported, due to the incompatibility of some of the perl libraries such as Digest::SHA1 
+
+  * rhel5 
+  * ubuntu 9.10 
+  * ubuntu 10.10 
+
 ### List of OSs that work as clients
+
+The following OSs have been tested. Anything that is not listed may still work, but is untested at the moment. 

   * statefull installs of 
     * ubuntu 9.10 
@@ -26,6 +36,7 @@
     * ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS 
     * ubuntu 10.10 
     * debian 5.0.6 
+    * debian 5.0.6 NETINST 

 ## Scope

UbuntuHowto modified by Arif Ali

Arif Ali — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:10:54 -0000

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 ### List of OSs that work as clients

   * statefull installs of 
-    * ubuntu 9.10 (**deprecated**) 
+    * ubuntu 9.10 
     * ubuntu 10.04 LTS 
     * ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS 
     * ubuntu 10.10 
   * Stateless installs of 
-    * Ubuntu 9.10 (with tweaks) (**deprecated**) 
+    * Ubuntu 9.10 (with tweaks) 
     * Ubuntu 10.10 
   * copycds 
-    * ubuntu 9.10 (**deprecated**) 
+    * ubuntu 9.10 
     * ubuntu 10.04 LTS 
     * ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS 
     * ubuntu 10.10

UbuntuHowto modified by Arif Ali

Arif Ali — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:10:50 -0000

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   * Package signing for a release 
   * rpower fails during on|boot|reset on Ubuntu Server 10.10 (KVM guest on rhel6) 
-  * soft failure: copycds ubuntu-10.10-server-amd64.iso (**This failure seems to have gone (arifali)**) 
+  * soft failure: copycds ubuntu-10.10-server-amd64.iso 
   * Console switch during rinstall operation 
   * Passwordless SSH 
   * VNC password set after CN deploy (using Ubuntu Server image) 
@@ -304,8 +304,8 @@
   * makedns failing 
   * 'rbootseq' is not supported when ivm is the HCP 
   * xcat "makedns" command broke for ubuntu 
-  * /etc/resolv.conf is overwritten on managed nodes whose IP is configured by DHCP (**This is the same with any machine (arifali)**) 
-  * Moving mypostscript.post from /tmp to /var/tmp for other distros (**This has already been implemented (arifali)**) 
+  * /etc/resolv.conf is overwritten on managed nodes whose IP is configured by DHCP 
+  * Moving mypostscript.post from /tmp to /var/tmp for other distros (**This has already been implemented xCAT team**) 
   * PostScript support for ubuntu 
     * xcatserver 
     * xcatdsklspost 
@@ -322,6 +322,13 @@
     * nbkernel 
     * yaboot-xcat 
   * Add support for stateless 
+    * Old Method 
+      * This has now, on some part, been implemented; this now requires extensive testing 
+      * This is not supported for maverick, but has been tested on natty as a client. 
+    * Dracut method 
+      * This is not supported in ubuntu be default, as dracut deb is not available by default 
+      * Provision for this although has been made 
+      * may require dracut to be part of the xcat-dep package. 
   * Add support for statelite 
   * Testing in several VM architecture 
     * KVM (as per this HowTo 
@@ -329,9 +336,6 @@
     * Xen 
     * VMware 
   * debootstrap in el5 will not work with lucid (10.04 and 10.04.1), but works on el6 
-
-  
-

 ### Stateless provisioning

UbuntuHowto modified by Arif Ali

Arif Ali — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:10:48 -0000

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     > apt-get install debhelper devscripts quilt libsoap-lite-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libdbi-perl reprepro

-Run the build-ubunturepo script to create your local repository. The build-ubunturepo incorporates the build of the repo so that all supported OSs get a repository made, at the moment, maverick, natty, oneiric and precise are included. 
+Run the build-ubunturepo script to create your local repository. The build-ubunturepo incorporates the build of the repo so that all supported OSs get a repository made, at the moment, **maverick**, **natty**, **oneiric** and **precise** are included. More will be included later, it could be that I can easily add etch, and squeeze to the list as well. 

 See the usage of the script:

UbuntuHowto modified by Arif Ali

Arif Ali — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:10:47 -0000

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     > apt-get install debhelper devscripts quilt libsoap-lite-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libdbi-perl reprepro

-Run the build-ubunturepo script to create your local repository See the usage of the script: 
+Run the build-ubunturepo script to create your local repository. The build-ubunturepo incorporates the build of the repo so that all supported OSs get a repository made, at the moment, maverick, natty, oneiric and precise are included. 
+
+See the usage of the script: 

     > ./build-ubunturepo

UbuntuHowto modified by Arif Ali

Arif Ali — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:10:42 -0000

--- v17
+++ v18
@@ -76,7 +76,12 @@
 Download/Checkout the xcat-core trunk development branch:

+    > mkdir /root/devel/xcat-core
+    > cd /root/devel/xcat-core
     > svn co http://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xcat/xcat-core/trunk
+    > mkdir /root/devel/xcat-dep
+    > cd /root/devel/xcat-dep
+    > svn co http://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xcat/xcat-dep/trunk

 Install ubuntu dependencies 
@@ -91,24 +96,23 @@
     > ./build-ubunturepo

     Eg.
-    xcat source code: /root/devel/xcat-core/trunk
+    xcat-core source code: /root/devel/xcat-core/trunk
+    xcat-dep source code: /root/devel/xcat-dep/trunk
     repository: /root/repo/ubuntu

-    > ./build-ubunturepo -c /root/devel/xcat-core/trunk -l /root/repo/ubuntu
+    > ./build-ubunturepo -c /root/devel/xcat-core/trunk -d /root/devel/xcat-dep/trunk -l /root/repo/ubuntu

 This script will run "build-debs-all", which will build each individual deb packages for all xcat source tools. 

-  
-When the script is done, you can add the repository to the apt source.list files 
-    
-    
-    > vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xcat.list
-    # add this line to the file
-    deb file:///root/repo/ubuntu/xcat-core/ maverick main
-    
-
-TODO: This script can also be used to generate xcat-dep (need to create build-debs-all for xcat-dep source code) and to upload the repository to GSA. 
+When the script is done, Run the following commands to add the repository to the apt sources 
+    
+    
+    > cd /root/repo/ubuntu/xcat-core
+    > ./mklocalrepo.sh
+    > cd /root/repo/ubuntu/xcat-dep
+    > ./mklocalrepo.sh
+    

 ## [Instructions] Setting up xcat-core and xcat-dep repositories

UbuntuHowto modified by Arif Ali

Arif Ali — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:10:40 -0000

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 ### List of OSs that work as clients

   * statefull installs of 
-    * ubuntu 9.10 
+    * ubuntu 9.10 (**deprecated**) 
     * ubuntu 10.04 LTS 
     * ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS 
     * ubuntu 10.10 
   * Stateless installs of 
-    * Ubuntu 9.10 (with tweaks) 
+    * Ubuntu 9.10 (with tweaks) (**deprecated**) 
     * Ubuntu 10.10 
   * copycds 
-    * ubuntu 9.10 
+    * ubuntu 9.10 (**deprecated**) 
     * ubuntu 10.04 LTS 
     * ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS 
     * ubuntu 10.10