Hi Tuan, first of all, please add a subject line to your mails.
Tuan A. Tran schrieb: > I am still a newbie. that's how we all start ... > 1) After installation, there are no users account in clients > (nodes). because you did not add any user account *during* the installation. You can do this by adding the correct lines into /etc/passwd during the installation with a shell, perl or preferably cfengine. Please read the manpages for passwd for this. > I want to test lam and mpich but lam does not allow me to boot using > root. I can't add user accounts from node because NFS mount is read > only. I can change this one by adding write option in /etc/export > but > it seems that it is not a prefer way. Is there any way that I can > add user account from nodes? "Plan your installation and FAI installs your Plan" means: Plan *every detail* of what you are going to do with the nodes, which software to run, the users you need ... simply everything. > 2) After installation, if I want to add a software in /usr/local, > what > should I do so that, from a nodes, I can also run the new software? there is as always more than one way to do it. you can install the software on the server and mount /usr/local on the nodes. or use the fai softupdate functionality. -- regards florian