Thread: Installation on a Red Hat 5.1 server as Installer

Hi there.

I want to install KUSU on a machine with Red Hat (RHEL) 5.1

On the download site I see a 0.6 build form October, and some links to
"Triplet" builds.
The ones for CentOS are invalid links, and get denied.
There are a couple of valid links for Fedora ISOs, but that is not too
useful in this case.

Can someone point me to where we download what is needed for a RHEL 5.1
installation?


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Hi,

RHEL edition of Kusu is not available on osgdc. Other builds such as
CentOS and Fedora are available. The links could be broken because
another build is happening.

Alternatively, you can get the builds from:
http://www.osgdc.org/pub/build/

-Liming


Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I want to install KUSU on a machine with Red Hat (RHEL) 5.1
>
> On the download site I see a 0.6 build form October, and some links to
> "Triplet" builds.
> The ones for CentOS are invalid links, and get denied.
> There are a couple of valid links for Fedora ISOs, but that is not too
> useful in this case.
>
> Can someone point me to where we download what is needed for a RHEL 5.1
> installation?
>
>

Tsai Li Ming wrote:

> Hi,
>
> RHEL edition of Kusu is not available on osgdc. Other builds such as
> CentOS and Fedora are available. The links could be broken because
> another build is happening.
>
> Alternatively, you can get the builds from:
> http://www.osgdc.org/pub/build/
>
> -Liming
The CentOS build link has been down for the past 3 weeks.

However that link above looks like it might hold some potential.

Thanks, I will check it out..

Tsai Li Ming wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> RHEL edition of Kusu is not available on osgdc. Other builds such as
>> CentOS and Fedora are available. The links could be broken because
>> another build is happening.
>>
>> Alternatively, you can get the builds from:
>> http://www.osgdc.org/pub/build/
>>
>> -Liming
>>
I grabbed one of these ISOs and mount this on a freshly installed CentOS
box.

I see a set of directories containing (mostly) a whole list of rpm files.

Does one just install all of these rpms?
In any particular order?

Are any options / selection choices?

Where do you start?

Any suggestions deeply appreciated..



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On Mar 29, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> Tsai Li Ming wrote:
>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> RHEL edition of Kusu is not available on osgdc. Other builds such
>>> as CentOS and Fedora are available. The links could be broken
>>> because another build is happening.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, you can get the builds from:
>>> http://www.osgdc.org/pub/build/
>>>
>>> -Liming
>>>
> I grabbed one of these ISOs and mount this on a freshly installed
> CentOS box.
>
> I see a set of directories containing (mostly) a whole list of rpm
> files.
>
> Does one just install all of these rpms?
> In any particular order?
>
> Are any options / selection choices?
>
> Where do you start?
>
> Any suggestions deeply appreciated..
>
>

These ISOs are bootable Kusu ISOs. You would use them to install a
Kusu master. Check this link[1]. It's an installation guide for a Kusu
ISO for Fedora but the steps are similar for CentOS.

[1]http://www.osgdc.org/confluence/display/KUSU/Kusu+Installation+Guide

Best Regards,
-najib

Najib Ninaba <najib@osgdc.org> wrote:
> These ISOs are bootable Kusu ISOs.
Figured that out.
Then figured that I needed a CentOS DVD for the "kit" for the OS
Got it installed, then , after the kit, the install resumed from teh
CentOS DVD!
Re-installed, this time removing the DVD.
There is not prompt to restore the KUSU DVD, and , if you do nto, it
carries on with a CentOS install, wiping out the KUSU install.

Anyway, second time was the trick.

Sort of.
When it was done, and rebooted, got piles of filesystem errors.
Not just on one, but all of the filesystems it created.

So, lots of fscks later, did get it to boot.

Weird, as I had done 3 previous installs on that disk recently, all with
no issues.

So, just to be safe did a full scan on that disk, with no errors found.

I think there might be a bug in the installer which is corrupting
filesystems.

After all is said and done, it does boot, but only gives me a text prompt.
If I "startx" it brings up an X session.


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Hi Maurice,

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:54:39 -0600
Maurice Hilarius <maurice@harddata.com> wrote:

> Then figured that I needed a CentOS DVD for the "kit" for the OS

Good point, we should probably make this clearer in the installer.

> Got it installed, then , after the kit, the install resumed from teh
> CentOS DVD!
> Re-installed, this time removing the DVD.
> There is not prompt to restore the KUSU DVD, and , if you do nto, it
> carries on with a CentOS install, wiping out the KUSU install.

I find it strange that leaving the CentOS DVD in the drive and booting
will automatically trigger an installation without any input from the
user?

> Anyway, second time was the trick.
>
> Sort of.
> When it was done, and rebooted, got piles of filesystem errors.
> Not just on one, but all of the filesystems it created.
>
> So, lots of fscks later, did get it to boot.
>
> Weird, as I had done 3 previous installs on that disk recently, all
> with no issues.
>
> So, just to be safe did a full scan on that disk, with no errors
> found.
>
> I think there might be a bug in the installer which is corrupting
> filesystems.
>
> After all is said and done, it does boot, but only gives me a text
> prompt. If I "startx" it brings up an X session.

Glad you got it working. Keep us up to date on your experiences!

Mike

Hi Maurice,

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 22:54 -0600, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> Then figured that I needed a CentOS DVD for the "kit" for the OS
> Got it installed, then , after the kit, the install resumed from teh
> CentOS DVD!
> Re-installed, this time removing the DVD.
> There is not prompt to restore the KUSU DVD, and , if you do nto, it
> carries on with a CentOS install, wiping out the KUSU install.

I've created an issue in our bug tracker for this. View
http://bugs.osgdc.org/browse/KUSU-909 to watch this issue.

>
> Anyway, second time was the trick.
>
> Sort of.
> When it was done, and rebooted, got piles of filesystem errors.
> Not just on one, but all of the filesystems it created.
>
> So, lots of fscks later, did get it to boot.
>
> Weird, as I had done 3 previous installs on that disk recently, all with
> no issues.
>
> So, just to be safe did a full scan on that disk, with no errors found.
>
> I think there might be a bug in the installer which is corrupting
> filesystems.

We OSGDC developers _really_ like things like logs
(/var/log/kusu/kusu.log, /tmp/syslog), so if you could please send them
to us, it'd be great. :-)

Also in this case, let us know your `fdisk -l` output as well.

Regards,
George

Hi Maurice,

Could you send us a link of where we can get the file(s)?

Also, for the benefit of the community, it would be good if we posted
our communication on the mailing list(if it's not sensitive
information).

Regards,
George

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 00:18 +0800, George Goh wrote:
> Hi Maurice,
>
> On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 22:54 -0600, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> > Then figured that I needed a CentOS DVD for the "kit" for the OS
> > Got it installed, then , after the kit, the install resumed from teh
> > CentOS DVD!
> > Re-installed, this time removing the DVD.
> > There is not prompt to restore the KUSU DVD, and , if you do nto, it
> > carries on with a CentOS install, wiping out the KUSU install.
>
> I've created an issue in our bug tracker for this. View
> http://bugs.osgdc.org/browse/KUSU-909 to watch this issue.
>
> >
> > Anyway, second time was the trick.
> >
> > Sort of.
> > When it was done, and rebooted, got piles of filesystem errors.
> > Not just on one, but all of the filesystems it created.
> >
> > So, lots of fscks later, did get it to boot.
> >
> > Weird, as I had done 3 previous installs on that disk recently, all with
> > no issues.
> >
> > So, just to be safe did a full scan on that disk, with no errors found.
> >
> > I think there might be a bug in the installer which is corrupting
> > filesystems.
>
> We OSGDC developers _really_ like things like logs
> (/var/log/kusu/kusu.log, /tmp/syslog), so if you could please send them
> to us, it'd be great. :-)
>
> Also in this case, let us know your `fdisk -l` output as well.
>
> Regards,
> George
>
> _______________________________________________
> Kusu-users mailing list
> Kusu-users@osgdc.org
> http://mail.osgdc.org/mailman/listinfo/kusu-users

George wrote:

> We OSGDC developers _really_ like things like logs
> (/var/log/kusu/kusu.log, /tmp/syslog), so if you could please send them
> to us, it'd be great. :-)
>
> Also in this case, let us know your `fdisk -l` output as well.
>
> Regards,
> George
Can do.

WHERE do you want me to send these to?

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