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Testing the OSCAR version available via our repositories

Testing the latest release

On RPM Based Systems

1. As root, add the following file into your /etc/yum.repos.d directory:
   • On x86_64 systems: [attachment:CentOS-x86_64-OSCAR.repo]
   • On x86 systems: [attachment:CentOS-i386-OSCAR.repo]
2. Make sure that your system is up-to-date, executing as root yum update or dnf update or zypper update
3. install the oscar-release package for your distro from http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/repos/<oscar-version>/
4. Check the content of the /etc/oscar/oscar.conf file; make sure it matches your configuration (for instance check the OSCAR interface, i.e., the network interface used to manage your cluster, is correctly set).
5. Execute as root oscar-config –setup-distro <distro>-<version>-<arch> (for instance oscar-config –setup-distro centos-7-x86_64). To get the list of Linux distributions officially supported by a given release of OSCAR, or get the exact syntax of the identifier you must use, you can execute the oscar-config –supported-distros command.
6. Execute as root oscar-config –bootstrap
7. Execute as root system-sanity and make sure you address all the reported issues
8. Execute as root oscar_wizard install

On Debian Based Systems

1. As root, add the following line into your /etc/apt/sources.list:
   • On x86_64 systems: deb http://bison.csm.ornl.gov/repos/debian-4-x86_64/ etch /
   • On x86 systems: deb http://bison.csm.ornl.gov/repos/debian-4-i386/ etch /
2. Execute as root aptitude update
3. Make sure that your system is up-to-date
4. Execute as root apt-get install oscar
5. Check the content of the /etc/oscar/oscar.conf file; make sure it matches your configuration (for instance check the OSCAR interface, i.e., the network interface used to manage your cluster, is correctly set).
6. Execute as root oscar-config –setup-distro <distro>-<version>-<arch> (for instance oscar-config –setup-distro debian-4-x86_64)
7. Execute as root oscar-config –bootstrap
8. Execute as root system-sanity and make sure you address all the reported issues
9. Execute as root oscar_wizard install

== Testing the development version ==

On RPM Based Systems (CentOS-5.x, RHEL-5.x, openSuse 10.x, and SuSe Entreprise 10.x)

1. Follow quick start guide

On Debian Based Systems

1. As root, add the following line into your /etc/apt/sources.list:
   • On Debian 4 x86_64 systems: deb http://bison.csm.ornl.gov/repos/unstable/debian-4-x86_64/ etch /
   • On Debian 4 x86 systems: deb http://bison.csm.ornl.gov/repos/unstable/debian-4-i386/ etch /
   • On Debian 5 x86_64 systems (still experimental): deb http://bison.csm.ornl.gov/repos/unstable/debian-5-x86_64/ etch /
2. Execute as root aptitude update
3. Make sure that your system is up-to-date
4. Execute as root apt-get install oscar
5. Check the content of the /etc/oscar/oscar.conf file; make sure it matches your configuration (for instance check the OSCAR interface, i.e., the network interface used to manage your cluster, is correctly set).
6. Execute as root oscar-config –setup-distro <distro>-<version>-<arch> (for instance oscar-config –setup-distro debian-6-x86_64)
7. Execute as root oscar-config –bootstrap
8. Execute as root system-sanity and make sure you address all the reported issues
9. Execute as root oscar_wizard install