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Installing ECS Community Edition Without Internet Access

The standard ECS Community Edition installation script requires internet access. However options exist in the the installer to allow for an internet free installation.

Download requirements

On a separate machine

• Clone the ECS-CommunityEdition repo
• Get the docker image with sudo docker pull emccorp/ecs-software-<version>:latest
• Save the docker image for transfer with sudo docker save emccorp/ecs-software-<version>:latest > ecs-software-<version>.tar
• Transfer the repo and the docker image to the ecs server via USB drive, scp, etc

Running the script

Once the required materials are successfully transferred to the new ecs server the installation script is run very similarly to normal installation, the only difference being the added flags of --no-internet and --load-image

so instead of running sudo python step1_ecs_singlenode_install.py --disks sdc --hostname ecssinglenode --ethadapter eth0

run sudo python step1_ecs_singlenode_install.py --disks sdc --hostname ecssinglenode --ethadapter eth0 --no-internet --load-image <path-to-docker-image.tar>