Hi, You should _never_ mix RPMs from different Linux distributions, this is a very bad idea and the best solution to have a very unstable Linux distribution. If your hardware is not supported by CentOS-5.3 and if you do not want to trick the kernel configuration, i guess you won't be able to use CentOS-5.3. OSCAR is not designed to address limitations created by a given Linux distribution.
If you want to use FC10, i can try to see if i can "port" the current development version of OSCAR, but i won't be able to do so before a few days. Let me know if this is something you are really interested in. Regards, ----- Mail Original ----- De: "oscar users" <oscarus...@gmail.com> À: oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net Envoyé: Jeudi 7 Mai 2009 10h46:31 GMT -05:00 USA/Canada - États de l'Est Objet: Re: [Oscar-users] Installation document confusion Hi Geoffroy, Thanks for your reply. I'm still not sure about some concepts: Is the "distribution repository" the source of where OSCAR generate client image? If so, can I substituted it with the rpms from some other distribution (e.g. Fedora Core) to make my compute nodes run on different OS from the server node? The reason why I ask so is because the SATA drive of my compute nodes can not be recognized by CentOS 5.3. But Fedora Core 10 does. Regards, James On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:25 AM, < geoffroy.val...@free.fr > wrote: Hello, 1/ Why is it confusing? Just follow the documentation and it will most certainly work. The note specific to RHEL says that the _distribution_ repository needs to be local; this other chapter is about the _OSCAR_ repository. And the documentation says so. 2/ Right after the installation of the OSCAR rpm means right after the command "yum install oscar" which installs OSCAR and as specified in the documentation. I slightly modified the text to try to make it even more clear but i do not see what i can do in addition of that. However, feel free to send me some text if you know how to improve it. Regards, ----- Mail Original ----- De: "oscar users" < oscarus...@gmail.com > À: "oscar" < oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Envoyé: Jeudi 7 Mai 2009 00h50:12 GMT -05:00 USA/Canada - États de l'Est Objet: [Oscar-users] Installation document confusion Hi all, I'm a newbie to OSCAR. I'm trying to setup a small HPC cluster using CentOS 5.3 (x86_64) + OSCAR 6.03 (unstable). First I took a quick glance to the online documents about the installation, then got a little confused: On the "Installation Guide" -> "Chaper 2: Release Notes" -> "2.5 Distribution Specific Notes" -> "2.5.1 RHEL 5" It says one needs to create a local repository right after the installation of OSCAR rpm. However, on "Chapter 3: Preparing to Install OSCAR" -> "3.3 Configuration for the Usage of the On-line OSCAR Repositories", it doesn't mention that at all. So, the questions are: 1. Do I have to execute the command " cd /tftpboot/distro/redhat-el-5-x86_64 && packman --prepare-repo /tftpboot/distro/redhat-el-5-x86_64 " if I use CentOS 5.3? 2. What does "right after installation of OSCAR rpm" exactly mean? I used yum install to get the OSCAR, so, does it mean I need execute the above commands right after yum install oscar? But at that time the folder /tftpboot doesn't exist at all. 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