I'm trying to get DRBL working on Fedora Server 37 for a Beowulf HPC cluster and want the compute nodes to be diskless.
I'm using the latest package for DRBL: drbl-4.5.16-drbl1.noarch.rpm
When I run drblsrv -i I get the following error:
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Installing DRBL for RedHat/Fedora Linux...
Your OS version is:: FC37
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Do you want to set up the proxy server?
[y/N] N*
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No yum repository setting found!
You must set the yum repository in /etc/yum.repos.d/!
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Program terminated!
HPC Head System Info
Operating System: Fedora Linux 37 (Server Edition)
CPE OS Name:cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37
Kernel: Linux 6.1.8-200.fc37.x86_64
Architecture: x86-64
Hardware Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
Hardware Model: PowerEdge SC1425
Firmware Version: A03
SELINUX=disabled
Troubleshooting
After reading through some of the source code for /usr/sbin/drblsrv
I manually created a drbl repository entry in /etc/yum.repos.d/drbl-core.repo:
[drbl-core]
name=drbl
baseurl=http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core/x86_64/RPMS.drbl-stable/
enabled=1
This was an attempt to fool drblsrv -i that yum/dnf was configured for drbl repository. This didn't work and still get the same error. The error is coming from line 466 in /usr/sbin/drblsrv.
Steven Shiau told me they don't have time to support DRBL on Fedora.
Is there anyone out there that would be willing to help me get DRBL working on Fedora/RHEL/CentOS/Rocky?
