-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Weigt wrote: | I have to setup such a (little) cluster as well and I am very interested | in a good documented Gentoo-based procedure.
I set up an NFS-root, PXE-boot cluster about a year ago. I can try to put my notes together into something usable as a doc, if you'd like. The basic idea I used was to maintain a couple of ROOT=/foo environments on the master server: one for the NFS root, and one smaller one with just busybox and a kernel to create an initrd for each node. The ROOT approach is far superior to what's promoted in the NFS root Gentoo doc, because it allows for a maintainable and differentiated node system rather than just copying straight from the master's root fs. I then booted to the kernel+initrd with an interesting setup: PXE-capable Etherboot on a floppy in each node (required a development version of Etherboot at the time), because I didn't have PXE-capable Ethernet cards, launched pxelinux on the server (part of isolinux), which served as a HW-address-specific bootloader so it was possible to have different roles for nodes. With a little symlinking I was able to just have one pxelinux config file per role. Thanks, Donnie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDfJQCXVaO67S1rtsRAnmYAJ0VagjI2ZmZaIjIpGYkKo0pd5ZUngCfSEH6 QFOqXkNw/NLAPmJBEAg7m7w= =mHEj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
