Recently I had to add support for xCAT to install Red Hat 4 update 4 for a project I was working on. I’m using development versions of xCAT 2.3 before all the xnba stuff got put in, so its a real hodgepodge of code.
Here is how I did it.
1. copy the cds:
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copycds -n rh4 RHEL4-U4-x86_64-AS-disc*.iso |
2. Make a new tree:
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cd /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install cp -a rh rh4 |
3. Edit Kickstart file
RH4 update 4 doesn’t have the –key skip option like it does in RH5 so I had to edit that out of the kickstart template in
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cd /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/rh4/ mv compute.rhel4.tmpl compute.tmpl |
4. Install a node:
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rinstall i03 -o rh4 -p compute -a x86_64 |
5. Sit back and relax! …Well, if you boot the right node. Turns out I had new hardware and an old OS! So it cried that it couldn’t find the disk driver of a dx360 M2. Now I really didn’t want to go down that path of patching the kernel and ramdisk. I used to do that a lot for systems… So this time, I was fortunate in that I had an older machine (x346) that I could just use instead…
Whew!
Its so nice when things work right away.
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