Re: debian on cluster
Hello,
thank you very much for your hint.
However, we certainly would like to avoid a NFS based solution, mainly because all disks from all computers holding data are already cross-mounted (via automount) and we would like to keep nfs dependence as low as possible.
Regards,
Ulrich
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 09:31:41AM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Ulrich Kerzel wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > we are considering installing Debian on a cluster of 30 or so linux-boxes.
> > One striking argument would be to have updates done via apt automatically.
> >
> > Our idea is that one machine (the administrator's box) would be the master, i.e. all packages
> > are downloaded from this machine and installed using apt. Then the newly downloaded
> > packages would be moved to our local mirror using the apt-move tool. All other machines would
> > be the slaves automatically installing the newly available package from the local mirror.
> > My question is therefore, how to do this efficiently?
> > I was thinking of putting the local mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list and having some
> > cron-job doing apt-get update/install.
> > But: How to tell the slaves that a package should be installed which hasn't been istalled previously?
> > How to deal with the situation that debconf sometimes requires some user-interaction? Can
> > the slave somehow get the configuration from the master?
>
> If all the machines are largely the same, look into running diskless-image
>
> You change your master, and the submachines are automatically updated,
> simply because they all run the same nfs-root
>
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