Re: [xcat-user] Fw: xCAT 2.3.18: copycds does not create centos7-x86_64-install-service osimage

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 01:09:56 -0800

hi Keith Ball,
 
`copycds` will first search for the relevant template, pkglist and otherpkgs.pkglist files under "/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/centos", the relevant osimage will be created on hit. 
 
xCAT does not ship service related files for centos7, you can create symbol links to rhels7 counterparts
 
for "centos7.3-x86_64-install-service", the links  look like:
service.centos7.x86_64.pkglist -> ../rh/service.rhels7.x86_64.pkglist
service.centos7.tmpl -> ../rh/service.rhels7.tmpl
service.centos7.x86_64.otherpkgs.pkglist -> ../rh/service.rhels7.x86_64.otherpkgs.pkglist
 
the diskful osimage is just a osimage definition, you do not need to rerun copycds again, you can create the osimage definition with `mkdef`, the pkglist, template and pkglist should be specified as above
 
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----- Original message -----
From: Er Tao Zhao/China/IBM
To: Song BJ Yang/China/IBM@IBMCN
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Subject: Fw: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.3.18: copycds does not create centos7-x86_64-install-service osimage
Date: Thu, Nov 30, 2017 1:34 PM
 
Hi, Yang song
 
Will you pls help to reply this question?
 
Thx!
Best Regards,
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----- Original message -----
From: Keith Ball <kb...@redlineperf.com>
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.3.18: copycds does not create centos7-x86_64-install-service osimage
Date: Thu, Nov 30, 2017 4:52 AM
 
Hi All,
 
I have installed xCAT 2.3.18 on a Centos 7.3 management node, and am using Postgresql as the database. I am planning to provision a service node.

When I run "copycds CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1611.iso", only the following stock osimages are created:
  centos7.3-x86_64-install-compute
  centos7.3-x86_64-netboot-compute
  centos7.3-x86_64-statelite-compute
 
**However**, there is no "centos7.3-x86_64-install-service" image created!
 
I have looked at /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT/SvrUtils.pm (seems to be doing the "heavy lifting" behind the scenes for copycds), but cannot figure out what's keeping the "install-service" from being created. Was it removed from xCAT for centos7 versions? (I have another xCAT cluster on centos7.3 at xCAT 2.13.7 that also did not build a service node osimage).
 
That being said:
 
1.) Any idea how I can get "copycds" (or other xcat action) to actually build a service node osimage?
 
2.) If xCAT won't create the image, is there a way that I can reliable hand-create the osimage for a service node e.g. by copying the install-compute image and adding specific packages? (my concern here is that xCAT and Postgresql, etc. items be propagated to the service node as needed).
 
Many Thanks,
  Keith


 

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