perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Great, I will update the FAQ and installation instructions on this. 

-jason

On Feb 26, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Joseph Bernard 
<>
 wrote:

> I was able to get the current ISO to work with LinuxLive USB Creator.  The 
> same thing that happened to Darryl where the key was messed up after 
> installing happened to me.  I have been able to recover it in Windows by 
> creating a Simple Volume on the key under Disk Management.
> 
> I want to use the x86_64 version, so I'll just put up with the quirk of LUC 
> until I have time to try something else.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> Joseph B.
> 
> 
> On Feb 26, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Jason Zurawski 
> <>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Joe;
>> 
>> Sifting through the sands of time, I found this:
>> 
>> https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/performance-node-users/2013-07/msg00017.html
>> 
>> You may want to try some of the other methods for writing the latest 
>> netinstall to the key listed in there.  The changes we applied at the time 
>> should be permanent now, but in the event that things still don't work out 
>> you can go with the 'special' USB netinstall images we made for 3.3:
>> 
>> http://software.internet2.edu/pS-Performance_Toolkit/previous_releases/pS-Performance_Toolkit-3.3-NetInstall-USB-i386.iso
>> http://software.internet2.edu/pS-Performance_Toolkit/previous_releases/pS-Performance_Toolkit-3.3-NetInstall-USB-i386.iso.md5
>> 
>> We haven't used these in a while, but the thinking is that they would work 
>> just fine and still lead to a 3.3.2 system.  Keep us posted on what you 
>> find, we can do some experimentation locally if you still have trouble.  
>> 
>> Thanks;
>> 
>> -jason
>> 
>> On Feb 26, 2014, at 6:41 AM, Joseph Bernard 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there a trick to get the NetInstall of 3.3.2 to run off a USB key?  I 
>>> tried UNetbootin and got the following error:
>>> 
>>> Error opening kickstart file ///centos6-netinstall.cfg: No such file or 
>>> directory
>>> 
>>> I have access to Windows, Mac, and Linux if another tool would work 
>>> better for making the ISO.  I appreciate any advice.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Joseph B.