On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Michael Green wrote:
I need to drive an interactive installation of execution daemon of
N1GE (Sun Grid Engine) as part of Kickstart installation. I have 20
new machines here waiting to be installed (followed by another 20), to
become execution nodes of an HPC cluster. The master/head node is
already installed and has N1GE master scheduler up and running,
waiting for execution nodes to join.
The installation of the exec daemon is not RPM based but bash-powered
wizard style of thing. I've prepared an expect script that supplies
all the answers (just a bunch of consecutive expect-send statements)
to the wizard and it works great when I run it by hand on freshly
installed exec node, but doesn't work when run as part of %POST. I
guess something is not right in pre-expect part of my %POST workflow.
Just wanted to verify that expect scripts work in general for other
people in their %POST sections.
If your answers will be the same, regardless of the machine, then one
would assume that the result is similar on each machine.
In the situation I had yesterday (installing Netbeans IDE, java GUI
installer) it was moumentally easier to install it once, tar.gz the
resulting directory and un-tar.gz it on to the machines in Kickstart.
Even if each install is slightly unique (e.g. includes the hostname in a
config file) I've always found it easier to do the above and then write a
script to edit the config file with the correct results.
--
Sam
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