Re: [Oscar-users] how to get rsh-server work on all client node

2002-07-11 Thread Jeremy Enos
William: I think these are the steps you need to follow: On your head node: Create a /etc/hosts.equiv file with all the cluster hostnames in the cluster in it. You can steal this from /etc/c3.conf. chkconfig rsh on chkconfig rlogin on Add two lines to the end of /etc/securetty: rsh rlogin U

Re: [Oscar-users] A problem about the kernel.

2002-07-11 Thread Jeremy Enos
At 02:50 PM 7/11/2002 -0400, Sean Dague wrote: In order to have the client nodes have updated kernels you need to do one of the following: 1) put the updated kernel rpm (2.4.9-34) in /tftpboot/rpm before building the install image 2) run 'chroot /var/lib/systemimager/images/oscarimage up2date'

Re: [Oscar-users] local.cfg ?

2002-07-11 Thread Richard Ferri
Teresa, Out of curiousity, what version of RH are you running, and what version of OSCAR are you running? OSCAR 1.3B4 is the latest 1.3 beta version (new and improved) and fully supports RedHat 7.1 and 7.2; OSCAR provides only 'experimental' support for RedHat 7.3 (today). Experimental support

Re: [Oscar-users] local.cfg ?

2002-07-11 Thread Sean Dague
By default SIS (the installer for OSCAR) wipes the entire disk that it is installing onto. It is possible to modify the autoinstallscript (located at /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/oscarimage.sh) to not do the partitioning, and only format the partitions that you are interested in, however, this is

[Oscar-users] local.cfg ?

2002-07-11 Thread Teresa Carrigan
We have a 3-node test system with RedHat on the server and are attempting to get Oscar installed. We had trouble with Etherbooting the first client. Is there a how-to or other info on creating a local.cfg file to place on the boot floppy? The clients are connected to the server via an Ethernet s

[Oscar-users] how to get rsh-server work on all client node

2002-07-11 Thread William Thies
It seems current oscar1.2.1rh72 version defaultly support ssh server. But for some reason, I need to get the rsh server work on all client nodes. How can I make it work when I build image? I don't want to configure all client node one by one. I want rsh is a default service when all client node

Re: [Oscar-users] Building 'oscarnodes' - kernel panic

2002-07-11 Thread Mike Mettke
Daniel, had the same problem with oscar-1.2.1rh72. You need to change the netboot kernel. The file is /tftpboot/kernel. I compiled my own kernel, no modules, hd drivers as needed, network drivers as needed, and the just copied bzImage to /tftpboot/kernel. Make sure you have the proper hd driv

Re: [Oscar-users] A problem about the kernel.

2002-07-11 Thread Sean Dague
In order to have the client nodes have updated kernels you need to do one of the following: 1) put the updated kernel rpm (2.4.9-34) in /tftpboot/rpm before building the install image 2) run 'chroot /var/lib/systemimager/images/oscarimage up2date' before installing the client nodes (but after bui

Re: [Oscar-users] thanks for advice on Mandrake; more questions aboutOscar

2002-07-11 Thread Mike Mettke
Teresa, see comments below. regards, Mike Teresa Carrigan wrote: Thanks to all who replied both on and off-list to my post on Mandrake 8.1 installation errors. We have ordered Redhat, Mandrake 8.2, as well as Scyld and will be trying each of these with test-bed clusters of 3 nodes before we