Nvidia DGX A100 User Manual page 86

A.3 Creating a Local Mirror of the NVIDIA
and Canonical Repositories
The procedure below describes how to download all the necessary packages to create a
mirror of the repositories that are needed to update NVIDIA DGX A100 systems. For more
information on DGX OS versions and the release notes available, go to
Releases.
Note: These procedures apply only to upgrades within the same major release, such as
4.x → 4.y. It does not support upgrades across major releases, such as 3.x → 4.x.
Identify the sources corresponding to the public NVIDIA and Canonical repositories that
1.
provide updates to the DGX software.
You can identify these sources from the /etc/apt/sources.list file and the contents of /etc/
apt.sources.list.d/ directory, or by using System Settings, Software & Updates.
Create and maintain a private mirror of the repository sources that you identified in the
2.
previous step.
If you are running DGX OS 4.x, see Creating the Mirror in a DGX OS 4 System.
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If you are running DGX OS 5, see Creating the Mirror in a DGX OS 5 System.
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Update the sources that provide updates to the DGX system to use your private repository
3.
mirror instead of the public repositories.
For detailed instructions, see , which provides examples for DGX OS Desktop 4 releases.
To update these sources, modify the /etc/apt/sources.list file and the contents of /etc/
apt.sources.list.d/ directory.
If you are running DGX OS 4.x, see Configuring the Target Air-Gapped DGX OS 4
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System.
If you are running DGX OS 5.x, see Configuring the Target Air-Gapped DGX OS 5
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System.
A.3.1 Creating the Mirror for the DGX OS 4 System
The instructions in this section are to be performed on a system with network access.
Prerequisites
A system installed with Ubuntu OS is needed to create the mirror because there are
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several Ubuntu tools that need to be used.
You must be logged in to the system installed with Ubuntu OS as an administrator user
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because this procedure requires sudo privileges.
The system must contain enough storage space to replicate the repositories to a
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filesystem; the space requirement could be as high as 250GB.
DGX A100 System
Redfish APIs Support
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