Xcat:Install

Installation with Internet Connection

Down load the yum repo files for xcat and xcat-deps. Copy them to the yum.repos.d folder

yum install xCAT

Installation without Internet Connection

Download the Xcat and Xcat-deps tarballs and copy them to the management node.

mkdir /root/xcat2
cd /root/xcat2
tar xjvf xcat-dep-*.tar.bz2
tar xjvf xcat-core-2.*.tar.bz2

Set up the local repos for installation

cd /root/xcat2/xcat-dep/<release>/<arch>
./mklocalrepo.sh
cd /root/xcat2/xcat-core
./mklocalrepo.sh

You will also need to add the Linux Distro ISO as a local repo to install the required packages from Linux:

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yum install xCAT
source /etc/profile.d/xcat.sh