Well, bad form to reply to myself, but since I made a bit of progress I thought I should share it.
To get past the specific error message I quoted below, it was necessary to repeat step 5 but only specifying the input .iso filename, not the architecture nor the distribution names. Why this didn't work the first time (and issued " Error: copycds could not identify the ISO supplied, you may wish to try -n <osver>") is a mystery. After repeating the "Copy CD" GUI function with just the input filename, the results were a fully-populated directory tree under the /install/rhels6.4/s390x root. I suppose if I had supplied the correct 'rhels64' instead of 'rhel64' it would have worked straight away. Now I have a different error :-) I get this at the end of the output: Operating system for linux01 set linux01: (Error) Missing autoyast/kickstart template: /install/custom/install/rh/compute.rhels6.4.s390x.tmpl linux01: (Solution) Create a template under /install/custom/install/rh/ I'll read a bit more on templates and see how I go. The Tutorial mentions them after this basic Provisioning exercise but they must be required earlier on it would seem. Kind regards Peter -----Original Message----- From: Bishop, Peter Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 11:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [xcat-user] very basic beginner's question - how to process an ISO file, is copycds enough (seems not)? Hi, I'm very new at XCAT...we're trying to get it going under z/VM v6.3, using the IBM-supplied version contained therein. I've been following the doc by Thang Pham dated July 1, 2013, called "Tutorial on Managing z/VM through the xCAT-UI", and am up to the part where I am trying to provision my first node. Steps so far: 1. Install z/VM v6.3 with latest XCAT maintenance according to http://www.vm.ibm.com/sysman/xcmntlvl.html 2. Configure as per the z/VM v6.3 manuals relating to OpenStack support (which also refer to the SMAPI manual). 3. Conducted IVP which passed with some minor mentions of disk space (now corrected) 4. Uploaded RHELv6.4 ISO into the /install/RHEL6.4 directory 5. Copied the ISO into XCAT, more on this later 6. Validated the network table for ZHCP to allow it to connect to the target VSWITCH that the Linux guests will use (without this the next provisioning step failed) 7. Run a "Provision new node" which successfully added the directory entry, the minidisks, the network interfaces, but failed on the ISO copy with: ===error message extract starts Attempting to copy http://30.4.122.232/install/rhel6.4/s390x/images/kernel.img to /tmp/linux01Kernel (Failed) Did not copy the file. Did you forget to process the ISO? ===error message extract ends Note that the results from step 5 are probably incorrect, in spite of my following what appeared to be the documented steps, in that only a single file was present, called /install/rhel6.4/s390x. My first attempt at step 5 failed via the GUI with it complaining about the -n option being needed by copycds. I found a command line route to the copycds command and ran it there as a workaround, but after deleting the first results and repeating the step with the GUI, the GUI then didn't complain but still seemed to only produce a single file with the same name as command line attempt's output. So in summary my question is - is there an extra step required beyond copycds to get the required install directory structure to work with the Provision function? Or more succinctly: what does "process the ISO" mean in the failure message above? It seems there are more results expected than a single file. Kind regards Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
