Daniel,

I've made a PR to xcat-core so xCAT can properly support Oracle Linux: 
https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/6919

You can check it out.

With the demise of CentOS many users don't want CentOS anymore and cannot 
afford RHEL. So as today, March 2021, the only viable option is Oracle Linux, 
there's no Rocky nor Alma Linux yet.

I can confirm that the patch words and I can even boot with Oracle's notorious 
"Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel". Which is nice in an HPC environment.

Regards,


On 1 Mar 2021, at 16:29, Daniel Hilst via xCAT-user 
<xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote:

In fact² this seems the right thing to do

copycds -p /installl/ol8.3/x86_64 -n ol8.3 OracleLinux8.3.iso

I'm not sure if everything will just work, I'm still testing, does anyone can 
confirm if such approach is the right way to do it?
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Enviado: segunda-feira, 1 de março de 2021 14:40
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Assunto: RE: Running Copycds on Oracle Linux ISO fails

In fact using -n=centos8.3 works
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Enviado: segunda-feira, 1 de março de 2021 13:42
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Assunto: Running Copycds on Oracle Linux ISO fails

I'm trying to run copycds on OracleLinux ISO and getting this error

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Any ideas? Oracle Linux seems to be supported at 
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/overview/features.html

Regards,
Daniel
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