Re: Just A Few Questions...

[Lukasz Wiechec <lwiechec@space.pl>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:34:42AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:

> You might also look into FAI, and diskless.  Diskless is a bit difficult 
> to set up, you have to install and verify tftpd and dhcp3-server, and 
> make a pretty extensive dhcpd.conf and /etc/exports.  But once it's set 
> up, administration is easy -- on the head node, just chroot into the new 
> "root", install packages, etc.  The docs are quite good.
> 
> Zeen,
> -- 
> 
> -Adam P.

I will be preparing installation of Linux cluster and I'm thinking about
"diskless" solution as well. My only conern is throughput - I don't want
to get stuck with congested network. Are you (or anybody else) using
diskless nodes and could say how they behave?

thanks,

-- 
Lukasz