{"id":6,"date":"2009-08-25T00:12:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T06:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benincosa.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2014-11-19T11:27:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T17:27:20","slug":"xcat-and-rhas4-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"xCAT and RHAS4 update 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had to add support for xCAT to install Red Hat 4 update 4 for a project I was working on.\u00a0 I&#8217;m using development versions of xCAT 2.3 before all the xnba stuff got put in, so its a real hodgepodge of code.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how I did it.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 copy the cds:<\/p>\n<pre>copycds -n rh4 RHEL4-U4-x86_64-AS-disc*.iso<\/pre>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Make a new tree:<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/opt\/xcat\/share\/xcat\/install\r\ncp -a rh rh4<\/pre>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Edit Kickstart file<\/p>\n<p>RH4 update 4 doesn&#8217;t have the &#8211;key skip option like it does in RH5 so I had to edit that out of the kickstart template in<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/opt\/xcat\/share\/xcat\/install\/rh4\/\r\nmv compute.rhel4.tmpl compute.tmpl<\/pre>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Install a node:<\/p>\n<pre>rinstall i03 -o rh4 -p compute -a x86_64<\/pre>\n<p>5.\u00a0 Sit back and relax!\u00a0 &#8230;Well, if you boot the right node.\u00a0 Turns out I had new hardware and an old OS!\u00a0 So it cried that it couldn&#8217;t find the disk driver of a dx360 M2. \u00a0 Now I really didn&#8217;t want to go down that path of patching the kernel and ramdisk.\u00a0 I used to do that a lot for systems&#8230; So this time, I was fortunate in that I had an older machine (x346) that I could just use instead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Whew!<\/p>\n<p>Its so nice when things work right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had to add support for xCAT to install Red Hat 4 update 4 for a project I was working on.\u00a0 I&#8217;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.\u00a0 copy the cds: copycds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[920,916],"tags":[13,921,11,917],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}