Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-07-01 Thread Prem Kumar
hi Sunil, this file should exist in /sbin directory when rootimg.gz is unpacked . regards, prem. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Sunil Venkatesh suni...@umbc.edu wrote: Hi Josh/Prem, I was trying to get xcat working with the PPC. However, I couldn't find the partimage-ng binary on the

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-30 Thread Sunil Venkatesh
Hi Josh/Prem, I was trying to get xcat working with the PPC. However, I couldn't find the partimage-ng binary on the ramdisk. Is there any place I could find this package? I have the partimage binaries that I downloaded off a website, but couldn't find partimage-ng in that package. I am using

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-17 Thread Prem Kumar
hello Josh, indeed it was an sshd config issue: external_sshd_config also i would like to mention that, since i have 'PAM' enabled i had to do the following as well to get it to work, and failed otherwise. cd /etc/pam.d ln -s sshd ext_sshd i was scratching my head until i found the above

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-17 Thread Prem Kumar
hi Josh, i take back my statement below, saying that it would fail, if i don't have a symbolic link ext_sshd to sshd in the pam.d directory. * * my statement is only true if one follows the instructions * *

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-16 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Prem, This sounds like an sshd config issue. I'd work with the external_sshd_config to find what is keeping you from being able to log in. Andy could confirm, but I'm pretty sure vcld sets that file up to allow password based logins. I'd

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-14 Thread Andy Kurth
Hello Prem, We're working to make the code more flexible regarding interface names. For now, I think you're going to need to modify the code. Open up lib/VCL/Module/OS/Linux.pm and find the generate_rc_local subroutine. Find the following 2 lines and swap 'eth0' and 'eth1': push(@array2print,

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-14 Thread Prem Kumar
hi Andy, i will stick to this workaround for now, and this helps!!! if i were to run a post load or post reservation script, any idea where would that be? regards, prem. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Andy Kurth andy_ku...@ncsu.edu wrote: Hello Prem, We're working to make the code more

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-13 Thread Prem Kumar
hello, every thing went well. have one minor correction to make. since my eth0 is public and eth1 is private, any idea on how could i guarantee that external_sshd_config listens to eth0 and gets the public ip and sshd_config listens to eth1 and gets private ip. because of the above switch of

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-09 Thread Prem Kumar
hi Josh, significant progress ... although not fully successful. and very valuable tip from you!, this helped me quite a lot: to aid debugging enable remoteshell and removing the /sbin/reboot line at the end i want to make a note few things here that got me past a little further in capture

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-09 Thread Prem Kumar
hi Josh, I need to add this to the documentation and should have mentioned it earlier. partimage can only capture a few file system types.  I don't remember the exact list.  I know it includes ext2/ext3 and ntfs.  I also know that it cannot capture ext4 and anything involving LVM.  That is

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-09 Thread Prem Kumar
Josh, got it to work!!! 'usepartimageng=0' set it to 1. never mind about the link to download partimage-ng, i was under the impression, that i will have to install partimage-ng, then looked around to realize it already exists in rootimg.gz. sincere thanks for patiently helping, now moving to

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-08 Thread Prem Kumar
hi Josh, no i do not have the 'os' filed set to 'image' in the nodetype table. also i do not have the 'arch' field set to 'x86', instead i have it set to 'x86_64'. this probably explains why it is not progressing. just so i understand this correctly, this has been my approach, can you confirm

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-08 Thread Prem Kumar
hi Josh, kindly bare with other inline questions before i try out your suggestions - 'vcl_rhel_node_template' then i need to have the following file under $installroot/image/$arch/ vcl_rhel_node_template.img vcl_rhel_node_template.gz vcl_rhel_node_template-parta1.gz The above code

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-08 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday June 08, 2011, Prem Kumar wrote: hi Josh, kindly bare with other inline questions before i try out your suggestions - 'vcl_rhel_node_template' then i need to have the following file under $installroot/image/$arch/

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-08 Thread Prem Kumar
hi Josh, made some progress with 'os' and 'arch' in nodetype set to 'image' and 'x86', yet i am missing something. kindly could you confirm where i went wrong from below in reference to xcat and partimage setup: - successfully installed a compute node with pxe boot and 'ks' template located