This was written for netboot (diskless) installs but some of the basic setup is the same and could help with your full-disk install using an osimage. We need to continue to work on the documentation in this area.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_iDataPlex_Advanced_Setup#Using_provmethod.3Dosimagename Lissa K. Valletta 2-3/T12 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: "Heald, Nathan T." <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Date: 08/25/2011 02:02 PM Subject: Re: [xcat-user] nodeset error when setting osimage (kickstart template) I had setup the osimage table but I did not know about the linuximage table. Correcting that entry has resolved this. Thanks! -Nathan From: Ling Gao <[email protected]> Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:08:17 -0400 To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Cc: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] nodeset error when setting osimage (kickstart template) That means you do not have an image called rhel6.0-x86_64-install-rhel6 in the osimage and linuximage table. You can check them using tabdump osimage tabdump linuximage If you did not put anything in those tables, you can not use "nodeset <> osimage=xxx" This is that you can do: If you are not doing anything special, you can just fill the nodetype table os=rhel6.0, arch=x86_64, profile=rhel6, (do not know why using this profile name, we usually use compute, test or something, it can be very confusing with the osver) provemethod=install Then nodeset <noderange> install Ling Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: [email protected], 845-433-5692 "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert Einstein From: "Heald, Nathan T." <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Date: 08/24/2011 05:28 PM Subject: Re: [xcat-user] nodeset error when setting osimage (kickstart template) [root@headnode ~]# lsdef -t osimage rhel6.0-x86_64-install-rhel6 rhel6.0-x86_64-install-rhel6 Thanks! From: Ling Gao <[email protected]> Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:47:35 -0400 To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] nodeset error when setting osimage (kickstart template) Could you show the output of the following command: lsdef -t osimage rhel6.0-x86_64-install-rhel6 Ling Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: [email protected], 845-433-5692 "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert Einstein From: "Heald, Nathan T." <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" < [email protected]> Date: 08/24/2011 04:34 PM Subject: [xcat-user] nodeset error when setting osimage (kickstart template) Hi, Having a problem setting the kickstart template for a new install. I've customized this in the past without incident, not sure why it's giving me problems this time. The goal is to be able to install existing nodes as rhel6 for testing. The error I'm seeing is that nodeset borks when attempting to setup the new kickstart template. I've already loaded rhel6 using copycds. [root@headnode ~]# nodeset oss1 osimage=rhel6.0-x86_64-install-rhel6 Error: No rh kickstart template exists for rhel6 The template exists: [root@headnode ~]# ls -l /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/rh/rhel6.tmpl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7124 Mar 1 21:09 /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/rh/rhel6.tmpl I've seen reference to another location used, created and copied the template there too, didn't help: [root@headnode ~]# ls -l /install/custom/install/rh/rhel6.tmpl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7124 Aug 24 15:32 /install/custom/install/rh/rhel6.tmpl What am I missing? 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