Casandra, thanks a lot for the link. I downloaded and deployed the "*18.04.5-server-*" ISO and the installation worked.
My suggestion would be to amend the documentation warning users that for the purpose of xCAT, they should NOT get "*18.04.5-live-server*" ISO image. This is because somehow Ubuntu makes it much easier to find the "*-live-server-*" ISO as opposed to just "*-sever-*". I'm saying this from my own experience - if you google something obvious like "ubuntu server download iso 18.04" and follow the links, you'll eventually land on https://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04.5/ <https://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04.5/> which presents links to the live ISOs only. I took a bit of time to look into the installed system and I have some questions: The installation the process is interrupted with a prompt "Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk". The prompt asks the users to specify a path to the drive where the boot loader should be installed. Is this working as designed? If yes, how can I eliminate this prompt in order to make the installation fully automatic, like CentOS? As it is customary with Ubuntu, password based root SSH login is prohibited by default. Is there a way (a postscript?) that can be used to unlock that in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (yes, I know about all the security implications, but for the purpose of this environment I don't care). I can right my own postscript, but I was wondering if one already exists, or if, perhaps, there is a method already built into xCAT. Don't want to spend time solving problem if it's already solved. The /etc/apt/source.list appears to be pointing to the xCAT repository, instead of the original Ubuntu repos (ex http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu <http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu>). But because the image on the xCAT server is a lean one (not much software in it), most of the packages one may want to install are missing from it. I fixed that manually by overwriting the sources.list with a copy from another Ubuntu server and got apt-get working. Is this an Ubuntu installer thing or an xCAT issue? How can I make sure that apt is pointing to the internet sources instead of the local ones? Should I write a postscript or there is a better way? Thanks a lot, Michael P.S. https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/mailman/ <https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/mailman/> shows "Oh snap! We can't process this request." this morning for me. I couldn't search mail list archives to find answer to my questions above. > On Sep 16, 2020, at 2:45 PM, Casandra H Qiu <cxh...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > This is my ubuntu18.04.5 iso: ubuntu-18.04.5-server-amd64.iso > > # md5sum ubuntu-18.04.5-server-amd64.iso > a3e1c494a02abf1249749fa4fd386438 ubuntu-18.04.5-server-amd64.iso > > # find /install/ubuntu18.04.5/ | wc -l > 3272 > > try download iso from this link: > https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04.5/release/ > <https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04.5/release/> > > > Thanks, > Casandra Qiu > > ................................................................... > Casandra Hong Qiu > Phone: (845) 433-9291, t/l 293-9291 > Office: Building 8, 3-B-04 > cxh...@us.ibm.com > > > > <graycol.gif>Michael Green ---09/16/2020 02:00:21 PM---Yes, I'm pretty sure I > ran the copycd step and finished without errors. [root@us7 xcat]# ls -ld /in > > From: Michael Green <mishagr...@gmail.com> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: 09/16/2020 02:00 PM > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [xcat-user] Ubuntu 18.04.5: > > > > > Yes, I'm pretty sure I ran the copycd step and finished without errors. > > [root@us7 xcat]# ls -ld /install/ubuntu* > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 20 Sep 14 18:03 /install/ubuntu16.04.7 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 20 Sep 14 18:22 /install/ubuntu18.04.2 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 20 Sep 14 17:31 /install/ubuntu18.04.5 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 20 Sep 14 18:20 /install/ubuntu19.04 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 20 Sep 14 18:20 /install/ubuntu20.04.1 > > The image I used is > > [root@us7 ~]# md5sum ubuntu-18.04.5-live-server-amd64.iso > fcd77cd8aa585da4061655045f3f0511 ubuntu-18.04.5-live-server-amd64.iso > > What I just discovered is that 18.04.5 appears to contain significantly less > stuff in it compared to 18.04.2. > > [root@us7 ~]# find /install/ubuntu18.04.5/ | wc -l > 746 > [root@us7 ~]# find /install/ubuntu18.04.2/ | wc -l > 3232 > > [root@us7 ~]# du -hs /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/* > 5.0M /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/boot > 714M /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/casper > 64K /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/dists > 2.4M /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/EFI > 180K /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/install > 3.2M /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/isolinux > 28K /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/md5sum.txt > 48K /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/pics > 221M /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/pool > 40K /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/preseed > 4.0K /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/README.diskdefines > 0 /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64/ubuntu > > [root@us7 ~]# du -hs /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/* > 5.0M /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/boot > 648K /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/dists > 948K /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/doc > 2.4M /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/EFI > 249M /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/install > 3.2M /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/isolinux > 180K /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/md5sum.txt > 48K /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/pics > 636M /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/pool > 40K /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/preseed > 4.0K /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/README.diskdefines > 0 /install/ubuntu18.04.2/x86_64/ubuntu > > > thanks, > Michael > On Sep 16, 2020, at 1:36 PM, Casandra H Qiu <cxh...@us.ibm.com > <mailto:cxh...@us.ibm.com>> wrote: > Error message: > > [root@us7 xcat]# rinstall us5 osimage=ubuntu18.04.5-x86_64-install-compute > Provision node(s): us5 > us5: Install image not found in /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64 > Failed to generate xnba configurations for some node(s) on us7.sj.lan. Check > xCAT log file for more details. > Error: [us7]: Failed to run 'nodeset' against the node: us5 > > > Can u check where is your install image? did u run copycds of ubuntu iso > file? the default location is /install/ubuntu18.04.5/x86_64. > It didn't find right now, perhaps you didn't run copycds on this MN. > > > Thanks, > Casandra > > ................................................................... > Casandra Hong Qiu > Phone: (845) 433-9291, t/l 293-9291 > Office: Building 8, 3-B-04 > cxh...@us.ibm.com > <mailto:cxh...@us.ibm.com>_______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user> > > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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