I tried FC3, following the steps you noted on the website. One of the nodes installed fine and the networking worked first time around. However, I tried the others and they all failed during installation. They seemed to hang part way through installation, during the packages upload (the screen did not update for more than one hour, so I assumed the install had failed). This happened a number of times (I tried 8 nodes and all failed twice).
I then tried FC2 and the first install went OK, but I needed to do the modprobe.conf trick you note in the manual. After that, all the newer nodes have installed successfully. I haven't tried the older ones yet. I assume I remove the modprobe.conf from the image directory for these. So I'll stick with FC2 for now. I might try a later version of EL3 another time (we currently have a full site license, so we have access to all versions). But I want a working machine, so I'll stick for now! Thanks again for your help, Martin Bates Quoting Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey Martin: > > Remember to read this message if you intend to go with FC3 - it has > important steps to get OSCAR 4.1 working with FC3: > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11812982 > > BTW, chances are if you have a newer update version of RHEL3 (eg. U4 or > U5), they'll work with your network card too. > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > ________________________________ > > 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 > > > > ________________________________ > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
