Additional Installation Procedures - Nvidia ConnectX-6 Dx User 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
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Log into the installation machine as root.
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
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
Install the key.
# sudo rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-Mellanox
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 6224c050: NOKEY
Retrieving key from file:///repos/MLNX_OFED/<MLNX_OFED file>/RPM-GPG-KEY-Mellanox
Importing GPG key 0x6224C050:
Userid: "Mellanox Technologies (Mellanox Technologies - Signing Key v2) <support@mellanox.com>"
From : /repos/MLNX_OFED/<MLNX_OFED file>/RPM-GPG-KEY-Mellanox
Is this ok [y/N]:
Check that the key was successfully imported.
# rpm -q gpg-pubkey --qf
gpg-pubkey-a9e4b643-520791ba
f. Create a yum repository configuration file called "/etc/yum.repos.d/mlnx_ofed.repo"
with the following content:
[mlnx_ofed]
name=MLNX_OFED Repository
baseurl=file:///<path to extracted MLNX_OFED package>/RPMS
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///<path to the downloaded key RPM-GPG-KEY-Mellanox>
gpgcheck=1
Check that the repository was successfully added.
# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager
to register.
repo id repo name
mlnx_ofed MLNX_OFED Repository
http://www.mellanox.com/downloads/ofed/RPM-GPG-KEY-Mellanox
72.3.194.0
200 OK
MB/s) - ?RPM-GPG-KEY-Mellanox? saved [1354/1354]
'%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\t%{SUMMARY}\n'
gpg(Mellanox Technologies <support@mellanox.com>)
status
1,354 --.-K/s in 0s
| grep Mellanox
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