Re: Just A Few Questions...

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

myuu wrote:

> Hey all, I'm in need of some help/advise. I'm working on a project for a
> HS extracircular activity and my plan was to build a beowulf. But with 2
> wks till i need to be done, its turned into a 16 node openMosix cluster.
> Obviously, with all those machines I really don't want to install and
> recompile each machine, so...
>
> 1)my plan is to get one node working and dd'ing the two HDs (dd
> if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb); since all these machines are identical, with
> should work right? if not, is there anoher way?
One other warning: dd doesn't always do this correctly, we had a problem 
where the target disk had [a] bad block[s].  So we rebuilt the 
filesystem with a check, and used "cp -a", worked beautifully.

Zeen,
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