Re: diskless cluster

[Kurt Keville <kkeville@MIT.EDU>]

There is a diskless package available. See

http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-howto/beowulf-start.html

for some info. There are generic Diskless HOWTOs at

http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Diskless-HOWTO.html

and the ever-popular...
http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/pxe.howto.html

At 02:20 PM 12/19/02 -0300, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>
>
>     I'm trying to build  a cluster beowulf debian
>with a master pc being a server, where the others pcs
>(slaves) will boot through a floppy that will boot it
>(with a etherboot disk - etherboot.sourceforge.net)and
>get ip and a kernel image using a tftp server.
>
>     Does anybody here have done this before, or have
>some suggestions ?
>
>   
>   Thanks
>Rodrigo F Baroni
>
>University of Sao Paulo State

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