Bugs item #912057, was opened at 2004-03-08 08:10 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by donpar You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109368&aid=912057&group_id=9368
Category: Installation Group: None Status: Pending Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: create floppy reports success even on failure Initial Comment: >From an article in ClusterWorld, one user reports that making floppy boot disks will report success even if the process fails. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Donley Parmentier (donpar) Date: 2004-04-16 10:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=322626 Jason, Yes, after working with this further, I believe what you say is true--that this is not a result of an OSCAR problem as such. Was finally able to get a floppy disk that worked. I tried many things, but it looks like prior to generating the OSCAR boot floppy, the disk has to be formatted on an MSDOS system (Not XP/2K/NT). In view that the disk generation routine formats the disk again, don't know if this makes sense, but it's my take at the moment. In any case, the working floppy enabled me to set up my 10 compute systems without further ado... Thanks, Don Parmentier ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jason Brechin (brechin) Date: 2004-04-12 16:00 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=274641 This should probably be submitted to the appropriate SIS people, as this is not OSCAR-specific, and is not maintained within OSCAR. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Donley Parmentier (donpar) Date: 2004-04-12 15:45 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=322626 I have found this to be true also. When the floppy disk create is invoked, sometimes it will do nothing at all and other times it will format the disk, abruptly terminate the verify, and report success. The floppys I've made that seemed to run to completion will not boot ANY of the clients that I'm trying to add to the cluster. I think a review of the floppy creation procedure may be in order, here. Suggestions appreciated! Thanks, SF member "donpar", Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109368&aid=912057&group_id=9368 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
