[nmglug] openmosix cluster update

[Jason Davis]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 13:21 -0700, bill york wrote:
> success
> 
> (sorry to interrupt the joviality re: power)
> 
> my problem was not knowing how to use initrd. seems that sata drives 
> appear as scsi drives and need a ramdisk to load the fs on the drive. i 
> pussied out and (this is an advantage of having a lot of spare computers 
> around) used machines with ide drives instead.
> 
> patched the kernel. recompiled -- the default sarge installation is 
> gratefully 2.4.26, the same as the latest mosix kernel patch. i could 
> use the config file from /boot! packaged the new kernel, copied it to 
> all nodes, installed openmosix with apt and /presto chango/.
> 
> thanks everyone for your help! now if i can just find a use for this 
> cluster....
> 
> W


nice :) ... DVD::RIP can use a cluster to transcode AVIs :)

jd
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Jason Davis <mohadib at openactive.org>