I ran into a few issues with getimage and oscar a while back, not sure if that was in trunk, or release, and not sure if it was me, or oscar that was giving me troubles.
Probably a better way to do it, is to install a single oscar node, using the package lists to give you as many packages as you can figure, and then image a single node. Make any changes and add whatever packages you want to the client nodes, and then, use prepareclient/getimage to pull that image to the server. I've done that a few times with my cluster and it worked, and once that it didn't.. Doing it in this order is better because you don't have to worry about hacking oscar databases, and you get all the oscar installed pieces, where trying to bring another image into oscar might cause you a bunch of grief (you might be better off just using systemimager straight outside of oscar if you are doing this..) Michael Edwards wrote: >You might want to look into systemimager's "Golden Image" >functionality. Its not in the oscar interface (yet?) but its part of >the package that oscar uses for creating the node images. > >So you would install the head node as usual, go up through installing >the server packages, >quit out of the interface. Install a compute node from scratch using >whatever package set you want, use the systemimager tools to make a >"Golden Image" on the headnode, and then use that for your oscar nodes >instead of the one oscar builds itself. > >You might have to do some database hacking to let the oscar wizard >know the golden image is there. I am not sure, I have never actually >done this, but it should certainly be possible to get up to the last >step without too much trouble. > >On 6/28/06, Jeff Blasius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Dear Oscar Users, >>Our developers typically want a "full install" on the compute nodes to >>avoid having to ask us to install anything. I've been struggling for a >>few days to get a package list that oscar likes. Is there a "full >>install" package list somewhere? >>I've even tried installing the packages while chrooted in the image, >>but that breaks the image. >>Thank You, >> jeff >> >>-- >>Jeff Blasius / [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Phone: (203)432-9940 51 Prospect Rm. 011 >>High Performance Computing (HPC) >>UNIX Systems Administrator, WorkStation Support (WSS) >>Yale University Information Technology Services (ITS) >> >>Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >>Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier >>Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >>http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >>_______________________________________________ >>Oscar-users mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users >> >> >> > >Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier >Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >_______________________________________________ >Oscar-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > -- Paul Greidanus CAD Administrator / Systems Administrator Center of Excellence in Integrated Nanotools University of Alberta [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7368 http://www.cein.ualberta.ca Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
