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Checkout Adélie Linux, which is based on Gentoo. AFAIK, they require |
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that you customize a stock Gentoo install. Be warned that they provide |
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very few (if any) support. For this reason I way prefer Rocks Cluster |
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that is really a breeze to install, but they do not have the bootp |
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paradigm... each node is a full image on it's own, but managmenet is |
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centralized thrue the headnode. |
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Cheers! |
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Le samedi 19 novembre 2005 à 20:47 -0800, Donnie Berkholz a écrit : |
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> Mathias Weigt wrote: |
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> | Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> |> What exactly do you want more detail about? |
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> | "They boot to an initrd containing busybox, then proceed to mount |
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> | necessary bits from a read-only NFS export and other bits via tmpfs |
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> | where they need to write, then pivot_root into the new NFS root." |
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> | I'd like like some instructions how to do these things you wrote above. |
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> | If you don't like to write a huge essay, I don't mind getting it step |
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> | by step. |
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> A linuxrc file does all sorts of stuff. linuxrc is a file within an |
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> initrd that gets automatically executed when booting into the initrd. |
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> The initial, skeletal linuxrc downloads a more complex script called |
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> linuxrc.real from the NFS server and executes that. |
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> The more complex script mounts a number of NFS exports (/ and so on), |
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> then mounts tmpfs for the areas that need write permissions (chunks of |
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> /var and so forth). Another option here would be a unionfs, but I |
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> haven't looked into it. |
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> Originally, I got both of them from xmerlin (another dev), and modified |
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> them a bit to fit my circumstances. I'll look around a bit to see |
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> whether I can find them, and send them along. |
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> Another thing you'll want to look into at this point is using initramfs |
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> instead of initrd. initramfs is initrd's successor and operates a bit |
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> differently. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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