Re: [Testbed-admins] unexpected behaviour installing from emulab-stable

[Leigh Stoller <stoller@flux.utah.edu>]

>> I'm trying to do a clean Emulab install based on the latest
>> emulab-stable.  I made a source tarball from git [1], and installed
>> my new boss and ops from it.  I got through the install and the
>> initial project, and went to customize MFS images, when...
> 
> Hi. In general, we recommend that people install 5.0 release and then
> update it once you have it running. That is because the initial
> install process is not fully tested, except at the release points.
> 
> With that said, this particular problem is mostly that the
> documentation has not been updated to reflect some changes I made to
> how the initial descriptors are loaded into the system. You can try
> this and hopefully it will work:
> 
> boss> cd /usr/testbed/obj/testbed/install
> boss> perl ./load-descriptors descriptors-mfs.xml
> 
> and then later you want to use descriptors-v2.xml for the rest of the
> descriptors. You will be the fist person in the real world to try this
> out, so you might end up helping us debug things ... :-)
> 
> Lbs
>