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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks, but I still don’t understand why there are 2 squash images though.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Gianluca Cecchi [mailto:gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 21, 2018 12:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Justin Zygmont <jzygmont@proofpoint.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> users@ovirt.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 3:11 AM, Justin Zygmont <<a href="mailto:jzygmont@proofpoint.com" target="_blank">jzygmont@proofpoint.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I was wondering why there has to be 2 node squash images? A LiveOS/squash.img and a ovirt-node-ng-image.squashfs.img in the ISO for download, and which one should be used?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">When doing a kickstart installation I noticed it uses the Live OS image from the inst.stage2= and in the kickstart.cfg it would reference the other node image from liveimg --url<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Is there any documentation around doing kickstart installs with oVirt?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I too tried some weeks ago (4.2.1 if I remeber correctly) and was confused....<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I was able to succesfully deploy, with these steps and pxe, also taking "inspiration" on what written at this link:<br>
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_oVirt_ovirt-2Dnode-2Dng_blob_master_docs_book_install.md&d=DwMFaQ&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjhg&r=FiPhL0Cl1ymZlnTyAIIL75tE4L0reHcDdD-7wUtUGHA&m=rgnKzgcbneUduKTLB3TK11-C0nujZ9pmv5fb29w3P6M&s=7e2QHo5p940uHfpIDVGgpWYEmvdU_hv19H4TzdDSdP0&e=" target="_blank">https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-node-ng/blob/master/docs/book/install.md</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">note: my pxe server makes also as dhcp server and http server for install<o:p></o:p></p>
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- iso of node-ng-installer <br>
mounted (via loop in my case) under /var/www/html/ovnode42 of pxe server<br>
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-under /var/www/html created directory ovnode2_stage2 containing<br>
product.img (6k of file) downloaded here:<br>
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__jenkins.ovirt.org_job_ovirt-2Dnode-2Dng-5Fovirt-2D4.2-5Fbuild-2Dartifacts-2Del7-2Dx86-5F64_lastStableBuild_artifact_exported-2Dartifacts_&d=DwMFaQ&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjhg&r=FiPhL0Cl1ymZlnTyAIIL75tE4L0reHcDdD-7wUtUGHA&m=rgnKzgcbneUduKTLB3TK11-C0nujZ9pmv5fb29w3P6M&s=hd2ex3r30up9YjbMif_YZQkk6ONU9wynqDjXAaxXVbE&e=" target="_blank">http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-node-ng_ovirt-4.2_build-artifacts-el7-x86_64/lastStableBuild/artifact/exported-artifacts/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">--> why not included..?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think in theory one can downoad here also the file updates.img and it should update the base version of the iso... TBV (not tested by me)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">---> where to get the updates.img? Perhaps inside ovirt-node-ng-image-update-x.y.z.rpm?<o:p></o:p></p>
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- inside ovnode2_stage2 created directory LiveOS and inside it created the link<br>
ln -sf /var/www/html/ovnode42/LiveOS/squashfs.img /var/www/html/ovnode42_stage2/LiveOS/squashfs.img<br>
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- the pxe file <br>
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It contains<br>
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default pxeboot<br>
timeout 50<br>
label pxeboot<br>
kernel vmlinuz.ovnode42<br>
append initrd=initrd.ovnode42.img inst.ks=<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__192.168.122.1_ovnode42.ks&d=DwMFaQ&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjhg&r=FiPhL0Cl1ymZlnTyAIIL75tE4L0reHcDdD-7wUtUGHA&m=rgnKzgcbneUduKTLB3TK11-C0nujZ9pmv5fb29w3P6M&s=2j4G8J91YRcAtTH5JYykwQauX3-YYwuAVOf_As5FMjs&e=" target="_blank">http://192.168.122.1/ovnode42.ks</a>
inst.stage2=<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__192.168.122.1_ovnode42-5Fstage2_&d=DwMFaQ&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjhg&r=FiPhL0Cl1ymZlnTyAIIL75tE4L0reHcDdD-7wUtUGHA&m=rgnKzgcbneUduKTLB3TK11-C0nujZ9pmv5fb29w3P6M&s=bgorHrFZRlkzBi4oljt0NO2kH8OsuS3Wpr8cj51lSdk&e=" target="_blank">http://192.168.122.1/ovnode42_stage2/</a>
verbose<br>
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- kickstart file<br>
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in /var/www/html created file ovnode42.ks <br>
it contains<br>
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install<br>
lang en_US.UTF-8<br>
keyboard us<br>
rootpw --plaintext my_password<br>
network --bootproto=dhcp<br>
timezone --utc Europe/Rome<br>
firewall --service=ssh<br>
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liveimg --url=<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__192.168.122.1_ovnode42_ovirt-2Dnode-2Dng-2Dimage.squashfs.img&d=DwMFaQ&c=Vxt5e0Osvvt2gflwSlsJ5DmPGcPvTRKLJyp031rXjhg&r=FiPhL0Cl1ymZlnTyAIIL75tE4L0reHcDdD-7wUtUGHA&m=rgnKzgcbneUduKTLB3TK11-C0nujZ9pmv5fb29w3P6M&s=1bhy8J4Y7Il6RBc8WYH0tD_35B2H-syyR9QGJsIBaSI&e=" target="_blank">http://192.168.122.1/ovnode42/ovirt-node-ng-image.squashfs.img</a><br>
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# partitioning - nuke and start fresh<br>
zerombr<br>
clearpart --all --initlabel<br>
autopart --type=thinp<br>
bootloader --location=mbr<br>
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#reboot<br>
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last line left commented to cross-check before reboot<br>
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at pxe boot the graphical install comes up and completes the install without any prompt<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It only asks to reboot as I commented out the line above<o:p></o:p></p>
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verified that after reboot I was able to connect to the server at https on port 9090 and getting the node dashboard<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">any validation comment?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">HIH,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gianluca<o:p></o:p></p>
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