Thank you, Nate, for the recommendation to use CentOS and reference to the 32-bit build.
Let me try that and let you know later how it went. Youssef Eldakar Bibliotheca Alexandrina On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 12:21 AM Nathan A Besaw <bes...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Youssef, > > I am not sure how well xCAT will work to deploy Debian. I noticed there is > a community supported version of CentOS 7.6 built for 32 bit x86 available > here: > https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/i386 > > I have not attempted to use the CentOS distribution linked above, but xCAT > support for RHEL 7.6 is well tested, so there is a chance the distro above > can be made to work with some minor tweaking. > > I think you will want to set your node netboot attribute to pxe and use > nodeset to configure the correct boot files for the node. > If the nodes do not support IPMI management, I think you will have to use > some mechanism outside of xCAT to configure the network boot parameters > from the node side and start the nodes booting. > > I think it is possible that you may be able to get this to work, but you > are attempting an uncommon use for xCAT here, so you should expect it will > probably take some effort on your part to be successful. > > Good luck, > Nate > > [image: Inactive hide details for Youssef Eldakar ---01/27/2021 10:12:55 > AM---Thank you, Nate and Mark. On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 7:49 PM]Youssef > Eldakar ---01/27/2021 10:12:55 AM---Thank you, Nate and Mark. On Tue, Jan > 26, 2021 at 7:49 PM Nathan A Besaw <bes...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > From: Youssef Eldakar <youssefelda...@gmail.com> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: 01/27/2021 10:12 AM > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [xcat-user] Diskless legacy i386 nodes > ------------------------------ > > > > Thank you, Nate and Mark. > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 7:49 PM Nathan A Besaw <*bes...@us.ibm.com* > <bes...@us.ibm.com>> wrote: > > What operating system are you intending to use for the diskless image? > > > > I was thinking Debian, because it seems neither CentOS nor Ubuntu have > i386 ISOs anymore. > > Are the nodes capable of network boot via PXE? > > > > Yes, they are, though no IPMI, but I already have a list of all the MACs. > > Is your idea to boot into a simple diskless image so you can mount the > local disks to copy the data off? > > > > Exactly. > > So would you suggest I proceed to try Debian? > > I appreciate it. > > Youssef Eldakar > Bibliotheca Alexandrina_______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > 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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