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RE: [suse-autoinstall] Simultaneous SuSE 10.0 Autoyast installs fail!
- From: "Richard Hobbs" <richard.hobbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:34:30 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <001d01c63152$4092a730$4b03a8c0@stgmkc5win>
Hello,
Mattijs: I can appreciate that if I boot all 8 machines simultaneously, they
might overload the DHCP Server, but if I boot one machine up first, wait for
it to begin installing the packages, and then boot a second machine up, as
soon as the second machine starts it's installation, the first machine (and
the second machine) hangs.
And yes, the machines can see the XML file (or else they won't not begin
installing) and they can also see the installation source (or they would not
start installing the packages).
Remember, it breaks after installing quite a few packages (maybe 25%
complete).
Hans-Joachim: I have a different XML config file for each MAC address of the
machine I am installing, see below:
============================================================
nfsserver:/install/configProfiles # ls -l
total 220
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 400 Feb 14 10:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 176 Feb 8 08:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24032 Feb 14 10:12 000E0C062613
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24021 Feb 13 16:21 001422B0351F
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24020 Feb 13 16:25 001422B0C567
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24021 Feb 13 16:42 001422B0C624
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24020 Feb 13 16:25 001422B0C633
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24020 Feb 13 16:23 001422B0C666
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24020 Feb 13 16:28 001422B0C726
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24021 Feb 13 16:28 001422B0C993
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24021 Feb 13 16:29 001422B0C9FC
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 88 Feb 7 15:59 oldProfiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 610 Feb 3 11:26 template.xml
nfsserver:/install/configProfiles #
============================================================
So, if I want to install a new machine of identical hardware, I simply copy
an existing profile, and modify the hostname and IP address. Why will this
approach not work?
Also, I am using DHCP to boot the machines, but the XML file has a static IP
address (which is the same as the IP address given to the machine from
DHCP).
Thanks again,
Richard.
--
Richard Hobbs (Systems Administrator)
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group
Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mattijs Janssens [mailto:m.janssens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 February 2006 09:59
> Cc: suse-autoinstall@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Simultaneous SuSE 10.0
> Autoyast installs fail!
>
> I don't know whether this is applicable to your situation but
> I have a
> cluster where if I boot them all at the same time some of the machine
> don't get their hostname set. Don't know whether the network
> isn't ready
> or maybe the dhcp server gets overloaded. I can imagine for
> your booting
> this might upset the installation.
>
> Another thing: the machines can see the xml file. Can they
> also see the
> installation source?
>
> Richard Hobbs wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a working and fully tested DHCP server, TFTP server,
> NFS file server
> > and XML config profile which I have used to build the first
> of many servers.
> >
> > The whole system has worked fine, but now I've hit a rather
> critical problem
> > - doing more than one server at a time seems to break them all!
> >
> > I have rebuilt our first server perhaps 15 times due to
> testing the XML
> > profile, and each time it worked perfectly. I now have 8
> machines which I
> > would like to install, so I've copied the 001422B0C61F XML file to a
> > filename which matches the other MAC addresses, and I have
> told our DHCP
> > server to give out the necessary MAC addresses as well.
> >
> > The only things I have changed in our XML config profile is the any
> > reference to the hostname, and the MAC address and IP
> address. Everything
> > else is the same.
> >
> > When I boot up all 8 machines from the network, they all
> boot into the boot
> > loader from the TFTP server, and they all boot into
> autoyast. They all load
> > their own XML config files, but part of the way through
> installing the
> > packages, the machines hang. Ctrl + Alt + F[1-6] does
> nothing, so all I can
> > do is reboot using Ctrl + Alt + Del.
> >
> > The TFTP Server, NFS Server and the server hosting the
> config profiles (also
> > over NFS) is the same machine, which can easily keep up
> with the demand for
> > files... So much so, in fact, that the system load hardly
> increases at all
> > during an install of a remote machine.
> >
> > What could be stopping me doing multiple NFS autoyast installs??
> >
> > Any suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Richard.
> >
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mattijs
>
> Mattijs Janssens
>
> OpenCFD Ltd.
> The Mews, Picketts Lodge,
> Picketts Lane, Salfords,
> Surrey RH1 5RG.
> Tel: +44 (0)1293 821272
> Email: M.Janssens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> URL: http://www.OpenCFD.co.uk
>
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Mattijs: I can appreciate that if I boot all 8 machines simultaneously, they
might overload the DHCP Server, but if I boot one machine up first, wait for
it to begin installing the packages, and then boot a second machine up, as
soon as the second machine starts it's installation, the first machine (and
the second machine) hangs.
And yes, the machines can see the XML file (or else they won't not begin
installing) and they can also see the installation source (or they would not
start installing the packages).
Remember, it breaks after installing quite a few packages (maybe 25%
complete).
Hans-Joachim: I have a different XML config file for each MAC address of the
machine I am installing, see below:
============================================================
nfsserver:/install/configProfiles # ls -l
total 220
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 400 Feb 14 10:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 176 Feb 8 08:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24032 Feb 14 10:12 000E0C062613
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24021 Feb 13 16:21 001422B0351F
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24020 Feb 13 16:25 001422B0C567
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24021 Feb 13 16:42 001422B0C624
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24020 Feb 13 16:25 001422B0C633
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24020 Feb 13 16:23 001422B0C666
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24020 Feb 13 16:28 001422B0C726
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24021 Feb 13 16:28 001422B0C993
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24021 Feb 13 16:29 001422B0C9FC
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 88 Feb 7 15:59 oldProfiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 610 Feb 3 11:26 template.xml
nfsserver:/install/configProfiles #
============================================================
So, if I want to install a new machine of identical hardware, I simply copy
an existing profile, and modify the hostname and IP address. Why will this
approach not work?
Also, I am using DHCP to boot the machines, but the XML file has a static IP
address (which is the same as the IP address given to the machine from
DHCP).
Thanks again,
Richard.
--
Richard Hobbs (Systems Administrator)
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group
Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/
Normal Email: richard.hobbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mobile Email: mobile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mattijs Janssens [mailto:m.janssens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 February 2006 09:59
> Cc: suse-autoinstall@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Simultaneous SuSE 10.0
> Autoyast installs fail!
>
> I don't know whether this is applicable to your situation but
> I have a
> cluster where if I boot them all at the same time some of the machine
> don't get their hostname set. Don't know whether the network
> isn't ready
> or maybe the dhcp server gets overloaded. I can imagine for
> your booting
> this might upset the installation.
>
> Another thing: the machines can see the xml file. Can they
> also see the
> installation source?
>
> Richard Hobbs wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a working and fully tested DHCP server, TFTP server,
> NFS file server
> > and XML config profile which I have used to build the first
> of many servers.
> >
> > The whole system has worked fine, but now I've hit a rather
> critical problem
> > - doing more than one server at a time seems to break them all!
> >
> > I have rebuilt our first server perhaps 15 times due to
> testing the XML
> > profile, and each time it worked perfectly. I now have 8
> machines which I
> > would like to install, so I've copied the 001422B0C61F XML file to a
> > filename which matches the other MAC addresses, and I have
> told our DHCP
> > server to give out the necessary MAC addresses as well.
> >
> > The only things I have changed in our XML config profile is the any
> > reference to the hostname, and the MAC address and IP
> address. Everything
> > else is the same.
> >
> > When I boot up all 8 machines from the network, they all
> boot into the boot
> > loader from the TFTP server, and they all boot into
> autoyast. They all load
> > their own XML config files, but part of the way through
> installing the
> > packages, the machines hang. Ctrl + Alt + F[1-6] does
> nothing, so all I can
> > do is reboot using Ctrl + Alt + Del.
> >
> > The TFTP Server, NFS Server and the server hosting the
> config profiles (also
> > over NFS) is the same machine, which can easily keep up
> with the demand for
> > files... So much so, in fact, that the system load hardly
> increases at all
> > during an install of a remote machine.
> >
> > What could be stopping me doing multiple NFS autoyast installs??
> >
> > Any suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Richard.
> >
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mattijs
>
> Mattijs Janssens
>
> OpenCFD Ltd.
> The Mews, Picketts Lodge,
> Picketts Lane, Salfords,
> Surrey RH1 5RG.
> Tel: +44 (0)1293 821272
> Email: M.Janssens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> URL: http://www.OpenCFD.co.uk
>
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