perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Andrew Lake" <>]

Hi Chris,

Others may have further ideas, but maybe try the current beta of the toolkit. The iso is at http://downloads.perfsonar.net/toolkit/release_candidates/3.5rc1/.

Anaconda (the software that drives the OS installation) has given us lots of problems in the past with disk partitioning etc, especially in text mode. If you select the graphical install mode option on the 3.5 disk (the default option actually) you should have more options related to disk setup. This is not an option on the 3.4.2 iso, hence my pointer to the rc.  Of course this is just a beta so all the usual disclaimers go with it, but I’d be interested to see if it gets you further. 

Thanks,

Andy

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Christopher J. Tengi <> wrote:

Greetings,
This morning I tried to install the v3.4.2 x86_64 toolkit v3.4.2 on a system with an 11TB RAID disk partition. The intent is to use this machine as a measurement archive. I know that 11TB is overkill, but it is a system that I have available for the purpose. When the installer got to the point of asking where and how I wanted to install Linux, I chose to use the whole space, and selected both sda (around 290 GB) and sdb (around 11TB). The installer then threw a bunch of python errors related to sdb, and offered to let me file a bug report, which I did. I then started the installation process over again, but this time unselected sdb. Unfortunately, the install failed with similar (maybe the same?) errors.

Is there a workaround that does not involve me going into the RAID controller and mucking about with volume definitions? I’d like to use the large space for the measurement archive, and am perfectly willing to make changes to directories and mount points after the installation, if I can only get perfSONAR to install in the first place. :-)

Thanks,
/Chris