Hello Bernard:
OSCAR 4.1 did _not_ work for me with RHEL3u5. Twice, it "hung" while performing the "Build OSCAR Client Image" step, with no error messages in the console window. I backed up to RHEL3u3 and was then able to proceed - at least to the point of building and booting a client. I'm stuck there now. But that's another story ... which I'll take up in a separate posting. Thank you, Richard Fairfield Math Sciences Computing Center University of Washington My Office Telephone Number: 206-685-2303 MSCC Departmental Telephone Number: 206-616-3636 Fax: 206-685-7419 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Bernard Li wrote:
Hi Richard: OSCAR 4.1 should work with RHEL3u5, if that is not the case, please let us know. It will for sure work with our next release (OSCAR 4.2) which will be out soon. As far as the headnode is concerned, there should be no problem using up2date to update to Update 5 - the tricky part is to get the RPMs and then copy them to /tftpboot/rpm. I believe up2date has an option of just downloading the RPMs (-d I think), they will then be downloaded to /var/spool/up2date. So perhaps what you can do is update your current RHEL3 to Update 5 by using the -d flag, run rpm -Uvh on all the downloaded RPMs, copy them to /tftpboot/rpm, and install OSCAR. You can also consider grabbing the RHEL3u5 ISOs and re-installing your system. P.S. Update 4 should also be supported, just make sure that you are using the redhat-3as-i386.rpmlist. As far as I know we just do not support gold (first release, no updates). Cheers, Bernard ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Richard Fairfield Sent: Wed 10/08/2005 10:32 To: [email protected] Cc: Richard Fairfield Subject: [Oscar-users] RHEL 3 updates and OSCAR 4.1 Hello: We are in the process of setting up our first cluster, using OSCAR 4.1 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. The OSCAR installation manual says that only Updates 2 and 3 of RHEL 3 are supported, not Update 4. But, using the "up2date" service, we are currently getting Update 5 on our other RHEL 3 systems. As we understand the process, we need to have updated the "head" node to the Update level we want to run, and populated the /tftpboot/rpm/ directory with the RPM files from that Update level, before proceeding with the installation of client nodes. But, so far, we've been unable to find a way to obtain a specific Update version, such as Update 3, or even a definition of exactly what RPM packages comprise a particular Update version. Can anyone help us with this problem? [ Please cc any respones to my email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Because, until tomorrow, I think that I'll only be getting the daily mailing list archive ] Thank you, Richard Fairfield Math Sciences Computing Center University of Washington My Office Telephone Number: 206-685-2303 MSCC Departmental Telephone Number: 206-616-3636 Fax: 206-685-7419 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
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