RICHARD GREEN <gree...@u.washington.edu> wrote on 01/15/2009 09:01:26 AM:
> Morning Oscar users, > > I have been running an Oscar5.0 installation for about a year. The > Golden Node/head node is running RHEL4 with 5 updates i386. > A year ago a colleague and I created an image (the same as the > golden node) and pushed it to two compute nodes. The system > has been running fine since. Recently I obtained 10 new nodes and I > would like to create a RHEL5 64 bit image to push down to them. > I know from the docs that RHEL5 is supported, but wasn't sure how to I was in a similar situation a few months ago. I had a 32 bit head-node and was trying to push a 64 bit image to compute nodes. I was trying to create a 64bit image on the 32 bit head node. It isn't supported. However, I think you can create a 64 bit image on one of the new compute nodes and imprt it into your SI image server. There are options within SI to "pull" an image from an existing system. It's not part of the OSCAR wizard, but it's included with the SI tools. You first have to prepare_client on the 64 bit compute node, then get_image from the client to the image server. I don't recall the syntax or the exact names of the commands, but the documentation is part of the SystemImager tools. The deal-breaker might be the installation kernel though. I don't remember if a 32 bit installer kernel can write a 64 bit image onto a compute node. In the end I decided to rebuild the head-node with a 64bit OS, so I can't say I was ever successful pushing the 64 bit image from a 32 bit server. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
