Customize osimage (Optional)

Optional means all the subitems in this page are not necessary to finish an OS deployment. If you are new to xCAT, you can just jump to Initialize the Compute for Deployment.

• Configure RAID before deploying the OS
  • Overview
  • Deploy Diskful Nodes with RAID1 Setup on RedHat
  • Deploy Diskful Nodes with RAID1 Setup on SLES
  • Disk Replacement Procedure
  • Remove the failed disk from RAID array
  • Replace the disk
  • Add the new disk into the RAID1 array
  • Make the new disk bootable
• Load Additional Drivers
  • Overview
  • Locate the New Drivers
  • Inject the Drivers into the initrd
  • Notes
• Configure Disk Partition
  • Partition Definition File
  • Partition Definition Script
• Prescripts and Postscripts
  • Using Prescript
  • Using Postscript
  • Suggestions
• Synchronizing Files
  • Overview
  • The synclist file
  • Run xdcp command to perform Syncing File action
  • Synchronizing Files during the installation process
  • Run the Sync’ing File action in the creating diskless image process
  • Run the Syncing File action in the updatenode process
  • Run the Syncing File action periodically
• Add Additional Software Packages
  • Overview
  • Install Additional OS Packages for RHEL and SLES
  • Install Additional Other Packages for RHEL and SLES
  • Install Additional Other Packages with Ubuntu official mirror
• Use new kernel patch
• Customize network adapter
  • Configure Additional Network Interfaces - confignetwork
  • Configure routes