Installing OMSA on Fedora Core 6?

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:57:28AM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote:
> I'm just starting to set up my first PE 2950 using (the client required)
> Fedora Core 6. I've got the host up and operating satisfactorily and now
> I'm starting on the Dell-specific software, specifically OMSA. I know
> Michael Brown has been working intensively on repositories for
> non-officially-supported operating systems like FC6. However, I'd like

Quick note on "support":

The Dell hardware repository only has repos specifically for: el4, el5,
and sles10. Sles9 repos exist, but I dont have any clean way to set them
up (requires adding yum 2.4+ to sles9). Specifically, FCx releases do
not have repos in the hardware repository. But you can hack it. (see
below) This repo hosts all of the officially-supported Dell software
(OMSA, drivers, etc).  Ie. you can call Dell support and they will
answer questions about most of this software, but probably wont answer
questions about the repository itself.

The Dell software repository has repos for fc6/7/dev, el4/5, sles9/10.
And if I get some help, maybe in the future ubuntu/debian. But the
software repo doesnt have OMSA or any of the other "Official" dell
software stack. The only software in this repo is community supported.
If you call Dell support, they probably wont know what you are talking
about.

> some advice getting started. I search the last three months of archives
> to see if there was any getting started information, but couldn't find
> any.
> 
> Could anyone point out a link or documentation on getting started with
> the non-supported repositories, and specifically with installing OMSA on
> FC6?

OMSA is not supported at all on FC6. It isnt in any of the FC6
repositories. If you want to try to get it to work, your only resources
would be this mailing list and the archives. That being said, you could
try the following (no guarantees):

1) bootstrap the Dell Hardware repo
(http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware)

2) hand-edit the yum config files /etc/yum.repos.d/dell-*.repo and
change the instances of "fc$releasever" to either el4 or el5. This will
point your system at the el4/5 repositories.

3) install OMSA (yum install srvadmin-all).

4) fix whatever breaks (and send email to the mailing list for future
people to find.)

5) if you run into specific problems, you can email the mailing list,
but no guarantees that I or anybody else will be able to fix it.

You will note that I very specifically do not do anything to block
unsupported OS distros from faking things. This was on purpose, as if
you can get it to work, more power to you. Please share your results. If
it doesnt work, there isnt really anything we can do about that, though.


> Thanks so much for your advice and suggestions. And a particular thank
> you to Mike Brown for these resources.

You are welcome.
--
Michael