On Friday 08 August 2003 02:00, Adam Scriven wrote: > What I'd like to setup is a compile farm/cluster, using two of my existing > machines. The number will eventually grow, but my wife won't let me bring > my old computers out of storage in this tiny apartment. :) > > I'd like to be able to compile customized Gentoo systems (perhaps for use > on LiveCD's, or available for Etherboot), but build them all from the same > set of sources. I have a computer setup running Gentoo (very well except > for some minor problems like the old mplayer issue that isn't fixed yet, > and some perl wierdness that is probably due to the recent changes), and I > want to use it to bootstrap the rest of my machines. > > The problem is, none of the machines are the same, the network is 100% > heterogeneous, but all are X86 based so far, so it's not going to be cross- > compiling per-se (although that functionality would be rather nice). > > The machine I'm running now is running an OpenMosix kernel. I'm assuming > it's working well, but with only one machine in my cluster, it's hard to > know for sure. What I'd like to do is setup a LiveCD for my wife's > computer, so that when it's booted off that CD it becomes part of my > cluster, and it's power can be used to compile everything (well, except for > those things that don't compile across the network properly, like X for > example). > I'm not sure whether I understand it right, but if you just want to build a compile farm you could use ClusterKnoppix (Knoppix with OpenMosix kernel). http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/
I don't know whether it includes distcc and ccache, but there was some talk about this on a debian mailing list. If it is not included you could add it yourself - just follow the instructions on the Knoppix website. Yeah, and Google is your friend :-) Hope it helps. Cheers, Renat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
