Hello, We are using xcat 2.13 to install RH 7.9 on a new Dell AMD Poweredge machine.
First, I should mention that we have been able to do a diskless install on the node. That was very smooth, and the node was up and able to run the postscripts after a couple of minutes. That was just a sanity test to see if we could bring up the IB, the GPFS, etc on the node. We would prefer to do a diskfull installation on this node since it is a login node. Attempting to do a diskfull installation has been painful. We don't even get to the point where the disk partitions are created -- the process stalled as the services are being started in the installation environment. For the moment we have switched to Dell's LIfecycle controller and that may be our best way forward. I do wonder, however, if anyone has managed to use xcat to complete a diskfull installation one of these Poweredge machines. If we can do all the installation work in xcat then that would be best. Please let us know if you have any experience or advice to share with us in this respect. Best regards, David
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