From: ullas nil; Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:53 AM > >When we network boot the client nodes using intel's pxe-2.0, they take >images from the server( previous operating system erased). > >Section 1.4 of installation guide:(minimum system requirements for client >nodes). >->same linux distribution and version as the server node. > >so whats the necessity of the above statement?
This is an artifact of the OSCAR structure; SystemImager per se does not require this. In a "classic" SI operation, you install the server components on your would-be imager server, manually build "golden nodes" on however many machines you feel is appropriate, e.g., for differing architectures, disk configurations, software loads, software configurations, &etc. You then collect each image using the SI command 'getimage'. You can then build nodes based on these images as you see fit. In OSCAR, the golden image is built directly onto the server's image repository. You then build nodes based on the image with the relaxation that you don't care that much about the disk configuration. In order to do this, your clients at least need to be the same architecture--by the way, this is something I would like to see fixed, but haven't yet seen a general solution that doesn't include the need to manually build golden nodes. We have plans to build multiple images based on software load and configuration; we are also to the point where we don't really care anymore about the distro on the compute nodes. Neither of these capabilities are exploited yet, but they will be at some point. Does this answer your question? -- David N. Lombard My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel Corporation. >-----Original Message----- > >-- >______________________________________________ >Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org >This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. > > >Powered by Outblaze > > >------------------------------------------------------- >SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide >Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. >Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=ick >_______________________________________________ >Oscar-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
