Hi Steven,
Steven Blackburn wrote:
I'm having problems with the r6785 nightly (dated 23rd December) and
am now getting too deep / involved. I am using Fedora 8 x86_64 (with
no updates)...
The first problem, which I managed to work around was needed
oscar_server to be added to /etc/hosts for the sanity check. Ticket
439 covers this but the solution either isn't in the branch yet or
doesn't solve all the issues.
I installed fc8 x86_64 on a cluster of five Quad cores with some
problems but it installed. In /tftpboot/distro you need a file
fedora-8-x86_64.url that contains the url of a remote repo of fc8 x86_64
distro. Choose one from fedora.org mirrors with 2gbps download like
this one using emacs or vi:
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/x86_64/os/
I had the problem of an apparent inconsitency in the names of
distro-related directories in tftpboot. If I follow the documentation
on the wiki and put the RPMs in /tftboot/distro/fedora-8-x86_64 I get
an "Unable to detect OS error on line 128 of PackageSmart.pm" error.
If I change line 74 packagesmart to use fedora instead of fc I go
round in circles. Letting it recognise fc as well as fedora gets further.
Do not tamper with PackageSmart.pm iteworks if you name your local
distro in /tftpboot/distro/fedora-8-x86_64 ( a directory) and copy all
files from your fc8 x86_64 dvd there!
I had to "yum install dhcp php-pear xinet xmlstarlet" to install from
the official online repo as none of these were on my DVD... are they
really missing from the distribution or is my dvd just broken?
2)Yes i had to to the above icluding yum install csh and below! That
seems to be broken. So for now yum the packages it does not find. You
will also have to build the rpms so do :
svn co
https://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/svn/oscar/branches/crispy_5.1
crispy51 say in /opt
then go to /opt/crispy51/scripts and do ./build_all_rpms and copy all
rpms from packages directory to /tftpboot/oscar/fc-8-x86_64
Also to get started you need lxml and cheetah . You can download and
istall them by : python setup.py build; python setup.py install. yOu
will first of all need opkgc!
Here it is :
svn co
https://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/svn/oscar/pkgsrc/opkgc/trunk/ opkgc
.cd opkgc and ./configure;make; make install!
Step 2 will build all the rpms for you which you copy to
/tftpboot/oscar/common-rpms and /tftpboot/oscar/fc-8-x86_64
Alternately you can download the common repo and fc-8-x96_64 repo rpms
which i built and uploaded som time ago before fc8 was released! from
the crispy branck and ADD the SIS dir of built common-rpms to it to get
going!
Also when you are creating the client image add
;/tftpboot/oscar/fc-8-x86_64 to the gui first box.
Happy Holidays,
Allan Menezes
When I run the install again, there seem to be yet more packages
missing: "yum install perl-XML-Simple perl-HTML-Tree perl-Tk perl-Qt"
but perl-Qt fails to install - does this need building for Fedora 8?
At this point I decided I might have gone too far down this rabbit
hole already and thought it best to get some feedback. Please let me
know if I need to go back a few steps, or what the next step might be.
Seasons Greetings,
Steve.
PS: I tried renaming the distro directory to fc-8-x86_64 but then
tftpboot-check.pl fails "ERROR: Impossible to find a local or online
repository in /tftpboot for the distro fedora-8-x86_64" so I changed
line 19 of tftpboot-check.pl to use the compat_distro when determining
the distro_id. This gets me further but wizard_prep keeps recreating
the /tftboot/distro/fedora-8-x86_64 directory (which tftfboot-check
then complains is empty the second time around!)
Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Steve:
On 12/17/07, Steven Blackburn wrote:
> I have tried a nightly from a week or so ago on FC8 x86_64 but
ran into some
> problems which were reported earlier on the list... like the
fedora repo not
> being found and missing an example fc8 rpm list. Also, I had
problems
rpm list aren't that big of a deal -- I usually just copy the previous
version's.
> updating the yume prereqs file to add fedora 8 to the 5|6|7
pattern. I
> stopped trying when the install complained about not being able
to install
> python-elementtree (mentioned in the yume prereq file, IIRC).
>
> If Bernard can check in the files, and if they make it to a
nightly, I can
> check out the current state of the 5-1 branch on FC8 x86_64.
I try not to check in RPMs which are already included in the distro --
however, for some reason I think Fedora 8 stopped shipping
python-elementtree.
It would be great if you can help us verify support -- however, my
work with f8-i386 would most definitely help with your endeavor on
x86_64, but it definitely does not mean support as you'll still need
to rebuild all the RPMs.
Ask us questions if you run into issues, we'll help you out.
I'll try to check in my changes tonight.
Cheers,
Bernard
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