Good Morrning SIS users (Hi Bernard!), With the help of Bernard and others we successfully build an OSCAR 5.0 cluster running 32 bit rhel4.5 over a year ago and are very happy with it. We have a couple of 32 bit compute nodes and recently acquired a few new computers(6). I need to create a 64 bit rhel4.7 or rhel5 image and deploy them using system imager to these new nodes (program I am running needs 64 bit OS). The hardware is slightly different on these new compute nodes. The new compute nodes are not raided (neither are the old nodes). Through OSCAR/SIS I have been able to take all the necessary rpms (off the CDs) and create images using system imager. I am concered that if I UYOK that I will deploy the 32 bit kernel sitting on my head node. I would still like to complete the job through through the SIS/OSCAR GUI. Any suggestions on the best methods to create a 64 bit image on a 32 bit oscar head node and then deploy to compute nodes? OSCAR userlist did not produce many suggestions and this is an SIS question. I know I could do a seperate 64 bit install manually on a new compute node and then do a get image, but would that prevent me from all the special package installs and configuring oscar does when sets up clients? It's not possible at this time for me to wipe out my oscar installation , load a 64 bit OS and then reinstall everything.
my tftboot directory: [r...@oscarproto1 tftpboot]# ls distro install-kernel-rhel-4-i386 memtest86+-1.26 initrd.img kernel oscar install-initrd-i386.img kernel-x pxelinux.0 install-initrd-rhel-4-i386.img localboot pxelinux.cfg install-kernel-i386 memtest86 rpm Another idea I had was to go into /opt/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default And switch out the current kernel location with the localation of my new 64 bit kernel ( the vmlinuz and initrd.img that I received off of the first RHEL 64bit install disc) and then try to try and network boot into my headnode and pull the new 64bit image down. would this work or will it crash system imager? Does system imager need its own special kernel or can it get away with temporarily substituted one? YUOK makes me this is doable but I could use some advice on the best method. LABEL systemimager KERNEL kernel (change this) APPEND vga=extended initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram MONITOR_SERVER=192.168.7.6 MONITOR_CONSOLE=yes LABEL kernel KERNEL kernel(change this) APPEND vga=extended initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram MONITOR_SERVER=192.168.7.6 MONITOR_CONSOLE=yes Thanks Bernard and everyone for your help in the past. Any advice folks can give me is muchly appreciated. -Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
