Additional Installation Procedures; Installing Mlnx_Ofed Using Yum - Nvidia ConnectX-6 Manual

Additional Installation Procedures

Installing MLNX_OFED Using YUM

This type of installation is applicable to RedHat/OL and Fedora operating systems.
Setting up MLNX_OFED YUM Repository
a. Log into the installation machine as root.
b. Mount the ISO image on your machine and copy its content to a shared location in your network.
# mount -o ro,loop MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label>-<CPU arch>.iso /mnt
c. Download and install NVIDIA's GPG-KEY:
The key can be downloaded via the following link:
http://www.mellanox.com/downloads/ofed/RPM-GPG-KEY-Mellanox
# wget http://www.mellanox.com/downloads/ofed/RPM-GPG-KEY-Mellanox
--2018-01-25 13:52:30--
Resolving www.mellanox.com...
Connecting to www.mellanox.com|72.3.194.0|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
Length: 1354 (1.3K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ?RPM-GPG-KEY-Mellanox?
100%[=================================================>]
2018-01-25 13:52:30 (247
d. Install the key.
# sudo rpm --import
http://www.mellanox.com/downloads/ofed/RPM-GPG-KEY-Mellanox
72.3.194.0
200
MB/s) - ?RPM-GPG-KEY-Mellanox? saved [1354/1354]
RPM-GPG-KEY-Mellanox
OK
1,354 --.-K/s in 0s
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