From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat 04/06/2005 2:33 AM
To: Bernard Li
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Oscar installation with supermicro X5DPA-GG motherboard
Hopefully it should be sorted.
I tried installing "rocks"
and this installed fine on the host and the
nodes, all talk to each other
fine, so all the equipment works!
I have then installed FC3 on one of the
nodes from CD (minimal installation)
and this can ssh to the other nodes and
the host with no problem.
So I'll strip everything off again, install FC3
on the host and try again
from there. If it doesn;t work, I guess I'll stick
with rocks, although I'd
prefer to go with something I already
know.
Thanks for your help.
Martin Bates
Quoting
Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi Martin:
>
> I just
checked the version of the e1000 driver that came with Fedora Core
> 2 and
it is 5.2.39 (version which supports your board). Therefore, you
>
can try to install your cluster using Fedora Core 2 or 3.
>
>
However, I'm not sure whether you still need to update your BIOS or
>
not...
>
> Good luck,
>
> Bernard
>
>
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>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
Sent: Fri 03/06/2005 12:02 PM
> To: Bernard Li
> Cc:
[email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Oscar
installation with supermicro X5DPA-GG
>
motherboard
>
>
>
>
> > > and make sure to
have latest bios installed R1.0C
> > > http://www.supermicro.com/support/bios/
>
>
> > Are you running the latest BIOS?
>
> Probably not.
I don't know how to update this. These machines are in rack
> mount cases,
and do not have CDs or floppy drives in and I cannot easily
> put in an
extra ethernet card either to test them. I can take the lot
>
apart
> and put a floppy in each one, one by one, but there seems to be
the
> problem
> that there are no (small) power connectors for
floppy drives.
>
> I'm going to have to leave it until after the
weekend to decide what to
> do
> with these.
>
> I
seriously advise anyone considering using OSCAR not to buy this
>
supermicro
> board - I've already wasted two weeks trying to install in
them. The
> vendor
> that sold me these machines said they were
fully Linux compliant, but
> clearly the supermicro boards are not as easy
to use as other boards by
> ASUS or TYAN that I have used in the
past.
>
>
>
>
>
>
