Hi eric, Thanks for your patience and all your effort.
I am not sure if this is the case but.. since you have said that you should use the "Updates" repo too, I doubt that your F8 machine may not be on a fresh installation status. If it is, you may have to deal with all the dependencies on your own way that we have not handled. For the IDE HDD, like I have mentioned on the devel list before, you should use "UYOK" to deploy your image to the client nodes on Fedora 7 / 8. Have you? http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08450.html BTW, for the test machine, I use the real machine whose images are saved on my image server. So, whenever I mess up with my test machine, I can easily go back to the fresh / almost perfectly optimized installation status where I start to test OSCAR again. If this helps to the OSCAR community, I will post a simple instruction to the OSCAR wiki page. Regards, - DongInn eric gisse wrote: > > > On Feb 11, 2008 5:18 AM, DongInn Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Well, my fedora-8-i386.url is > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat fedora-8-i386.url > > file:/tftpboot/distro/fedora-8-i386 > > > http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os > > As you can see, mine is not the dvd one but everything containing > all the rpms (DVD + updates + etc). > > > Yes, I confirm that the DVD repo and DVD does not have all the rpms > that we need and we should use the "Everything" repository. > > > This took me a long time to figure out. It was not clear that a) I > needed to do this at all and b) that /installing/ the missing packages > was not good enough *and* if you did that, the image would be created > but would never work. The documentation needs some Fedora 8-specific > additions. Which I will try to suggest/add when I get this cluster > operational. > > For some reason I still can't discern, OSCAR is incapable of using yum > to pull RPM's right off the server like I can do through "yum install" @ > the command prompt. Plus OSCAR won't cache the ~250mb of RPM's it pulls > off the remote repositories, and refuses to acknowledge them when I > directly incorporate them into a local yum repository *and* reference it > in the advanced repository. This stuff needs mentioning. > > > > > I have never tested OSCAR 5.1 b1 or branch-5-1 on VMware and mine is > just a normal P4 machine. > > > As are my expected server and client nodes. VMware is my way of saying > I'm sick and tired of messing with the PCs until I get this sorted out. > OSCAR behaves, in my estimation, counter-intuitively sometimes. > > > > The VMWare behavior may cause some problems that we have not > expected but I have never encountered eric's problems on my physical > machines. > > > Agreed. I think my current imaging problems I'm seeing on VMware are > VMware specific due to the way VMware does harddrives. If I had an extra > drive I could directly access with the image, I'm sure I'd be OK. But I > don't. I'm going to be either imaging directly off a VMware headnode or > a server with OSCAR installed the way I have it installed on VMware > later today. > > Yes, I know that FC5 is the real "supported" version but I do not trust > it to work reliably on all my machines since I have a mix of IDE and > SCSI drives. I don't seem to have that many other options as far as > either clustering solutions [ROCKS is too demanding] or other OS' are > concerned [Redhat == Fedora, everything else = x86_64 or ppc]. > > > > So eric, can you please try to play with OSCAR 5.1 b1 on an actual > machine when you have a chance? > Please post again if you still have the same problems. > > > I did, but the responses were less than helpful. > > My current theory is that /Everything isn't good enough, that I need to > have the /updates directory as well. Which is what I used as I built the > images on VMware. I'm going to use VMware to act as the server node > until I'm satisfied I have the kinks worked out. This only because I'm > sick of reinstalling Fedora and OSCAR to ensure none of my fuckups are > transitioning between attempts. > > It must be the case that I'm missing something simple since so many > people seem to be making FC8 work on newer hardware & OSCAR 5.1b1. The > stuff I'm using is ~6 years old, but still perfectly functional. P4's > and P3's, with 1 possibly 2 Athlon's thrown in. > > I spent most of my time trying to figure out why installing packages > directly wasn't good enough. The last week has had me fiddling with > online repositories and figuring out PXE & dhcp since I have used > neither before. > > My last attempt on the P4 head node was as it is now, except I wasn't > using the updates directory to help build the image. The image built > correctly, PXE & dhcp played ball, and the image downloaded. Except the > image would not install on the harddrive for some reason. Yes, I know a > log would be helpful but I can't copy and paste out of the terminal > window for some goddamn reason and I can't remember what the error was. > I'm sure I'll see it again. > > The only other theory I have is that the dells I have are pieces of shit > and that FC8, even though it installs w/o incident on them, somehow > chokes anyway. I'll try throwing it on an old non-dell P3 or AMD Athlon > system to check that out. > > [...] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. 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