[xcat-user] xCAT on SLES10
wilson at blackhat.net
wilson at blackhat.net
Sat Sep 6 09:57:48 MDT 2008
Hi Again All,
Thanks for the update on this; I am just starting to ramp up for a new
project which I am planning to be use xcat 2 with sles 10.2 on so the
timing of this info is great.
One other question, has anyone used xcat 2 on HP's new blade servers?
Any gottcha's ?
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Quoting Torsten <torsten at bloth.net>:
> Hi all,
>
> to update this thread: zypper works fine on my SLES10 SP2 System.
>
>
> I just made the following:
> zypper sa http://xcat.sf.net/yum/xcat-core
> zypper sa http://xcat.sf.net/yum/xcat-dep/sles10/x86_64
> zypper up
> zypper install xCAT
>
>
>
>
>
> Walt Scheper schrieb:
>> Try again with zypper on sp1. You shouldn't need to use sp2 unless you
>> want to generate sles10 diskless images, as that requires a newer
>> version of zypper.
>>
>> Walter Scheper
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>> Re: [xcat-user] xCAT on SLES10
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>>
>> Hi Walter,
>>
>> I've tried this a couple of times with SLES 10, sp1.
>>
>> I got yum installed, but couldn't get it to dl the repository.
>>
>> I saw what Jarrod said about doing it with Zypper, but haven't looked
>> into that yet.
>>
>> If, as the last fellow said, I need to go to sp2, I'm game, but that
>> didn't seem to be a requirement when I looked at the install stuff that
>> was there before.
>>
>> Admittedly, that was a month or so back, before sp2 was out.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
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>> Michael R. Wilson
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>> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 08:23 -0400, Walt Scheper wrote:
>>> Hey Michael,
>>>
>>> Where exactly are you running into problems with xcat and SLES 10?
>>> Also which version of SLES are you using?
>>>
>>> Walter Scheper
>>> 1350/iDataPlex Test
>>> IBM, RTP
>>> 919-543-6077--T/L 441-6077 (lab)
>>> 919-740-0831 (cell)
>>>
>>> Inactive hide details for MrWilson ---06/11/2008 01:51:33 PM---Hi
>>> Folks,MrWilson ---06/11/2008 01:51:33 PM---Hi Folks,
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>>> Re: [xcat-user]
>>> xCAT on SLES10
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> I am extremely interested in using 2.0 on SLES 10 also.
>>>
>>> I don't have a project for it yet, but it's only a matter of time
>>> until
>>> I will, and I have tried to get it to go a couple of times in my lab
>>> with SLES 10 sp1, but have had no success.
>>>
>>> If there's anyone who has gotten it to work that would be willing to
>>> share some of their knowledge, I would be more than happy to put
>>> together a 'recipe' for it to share with anyone who is interested.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
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>>>
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>>> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 14:28 +0200, Bert.Wiegers at COMPUTACENTER.COM
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi Jarrod,
>>> > did You find Your contact or any further Information?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
>>> > Bert
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> > Jarrod B Johnson
>>>
>>> > <jbjohnso at us.ibm.
>>>
>>> > com>
>>> To
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>>> >
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>>> > 06.06.2008 15:02
>>> Subject
>>> > Re: [xcat-user] xCAT on
>>> SLES10
>>> >
>>>
>>> > Please respond to
>>>
>>> > xCAT Users
>>>
>>> > Mailing list
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>>> > <xcat-user at lists.
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>>> >
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>>> >
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>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Need to document the process, I've helped someone else do it, but
>>> have not
>>> > done it myself, general tips for the advanced people:
>>> > -SLES10 comes with zypper. zypper works out of the box to add yum
>>> > repositories. It works differently though, instead of getting the
>>> '.repo'
>>> > file, you have to zypper sa <url to repository>.
>>> > -conserver script. The rpm puts a RH specific in it. We should have
>>> patched
>>> > that too. I'll try to get the person who replaced it to post a bug
>>> with his
>>> > init script as an attachment. Then I'll point you to that and 2.0.1
>>> will
>>> > have cleaner SLES support.
>>> >
>>> > I need to have one of the SLES users help me document and fix any
>>> other
>>> > peculiarities. They have taken clusters through a decent lifecycle.
>>> >
>>> > How big is that cluster? Is it single management node? We have not
>>> actually
>>> > deployed anything more complex with SLES yet, so service node
>>> install
>>> > templates don't exist yet.
>>> >
>>> > Do the nodes have local disks? The further caveat being if not,
>>> you'll need
>>> > SLES10 SP2, as that is when they made zypper good enough to help us
>>> do
>>> > stateless and when autoyast *almost* could install iSCSI without
>>> firmware
>>> > (copycds patches SP2 media on the fly to correct the bug we found
>>> with
>>> > SP2).
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Bert.Wiegers---06/06/2008 06:29:58 AM---Hi,
>>> >
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> > From: Bert.Wiegers at computacenter.com
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> > To: xcat-user at lists.xcat.org
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>>> >
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> > Date: 06/06/2008 06:29 AM
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> > Subject: [xcat-user] xCAT on SLES10
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I intend to build a Cluster with xCAT and SLES10 in a week.
>>> > Up to then I have no Hardware for testing.
>>> > Does anyone tried this before? Are there any Hints regarding
>>> > SLES10 I should be aware of?
>>> > (Does YUM on SLES work out of the box?)
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for every bit.
>>> > Bert
>>> >
>>> >
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