Thanks, but I still don’t understand why there are 2 squash images though.

 

 

From: Gianluca Cecchi [mailto:gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2018 12:59 AM
To: Justin Zygmont <jzygmont@proofpoint.com>
Cc: users@ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] ovirt question

 

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 3:11 AM, Justin Zygmont <jzygmont@proofpoint.com> wrote:

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?

 

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

 

Is there any documentation around doing kickstart installs with oVirt?

 

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

I too tried some weeks ago (4.2.1 if I remeber correctly) and was confused....

I was able to succesfully deploy, with these steps and pxe, also taking "inspiration" on what written at this link:
https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-node-ng/blob/master/docs/book/install.md

note: my pxe server makes also as dhcp server and http server for install

- iso of node-ng-installer
mounted (via loop in my case) under /var/www/html/ovnode42 of pxe server

-under /var/www/html created directory ovnode2_stage2 containing
product.img (6k of file) downloaded here:
http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-node-ng_ovirt-4.2_build-artifacts-el7-x86_64/lastStableBuild/artifact/exported-artifacts/

--> why not included..?

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)

---> where to get the updates.img? Perhaps inside ovirt-node-ng-image-update-x.y.z.rpm?

- inside ovnode2_stage2 created directory LiveOS and inside it created the link
ln -sf /var/www/html/ovnode42/LiveOS/squashfs.img /var/www/html/ovnode42_stage2/LiveOS/squashfs.img


- the pxe file

It contains

default pxeboot
timeout 50
label pxeboot
kernel vmlinuz.ovnode42
append initrd=initrd.ovnode42.img inst.ks=http://192.168.122.1/ovnode42.ks inst.stage2=http://192.168.122.1/ovnode42_stage2/ verbose


- kickstart file

in /var/www/html created file ovnode42.ks
it contains

install
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
rootpw  --plaintext my_password
network --bootproto=dhcp
timezone --utc Europe/Rome
firewall --service=ssh

liveimg --url=http://192.168.122.1/ovnode42/ovirt-node-ng-image.squashfs.img

# partitioning - nuke and start fresh
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
autopart --type=thinp
bootloader --location=mbr

#reboot

last line left commented to cross-check before reboot

at pxe boot the graphical install comes up and completes the install without any prompt

It only asks to reboot as I commented out the line above

verified that after reboot I was able to connect to the server at https on port 9090 and getting the node dashboard

any validation comment?

HIH,

Gianluca

 

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