Re: [debian-knoppix] howto cluster a bunch of sort of oldish systems
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:30:45PM +0000, stephen parkinson wrote:
> i've been wanting to cluster a few oldish systems for awhile and
> looking at the cluster knoppix docs have seemed to have arrived at a
> conclusion that pxe capable ethernet cards are reqd
No, etherboot from a floppy does it as well. See
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/ under the HOWTO section.
> systems are celeron 2.6G, dual celeron-500, amd1800+ & an amd xp1800+
> all with hard disk, cdrom & ethernet pro 100's
> yes i am happy to do a hard disk install on all.
>
> so if i wanted the 2.6Gb as master and the rest as non-X slaves, how
> would i go about it?
See above, and the links in the FAQ tab on Wim's clusterKnoppix pages at
bofh.be. It's all inside the 'start knoppix openmosix terminalserver' option
dialog.
Dirk
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