This may not be relevant but I have a cluster of Xserve G4's and couldn't install YDL-5.0.2 using either the CD's or (of course) the DVD. Terrasoft recommended that I install via http by putting the YDL file in my pub directory and just using boot.iso to boot the Xserves (which they do). I used YDL 5.0.2 on my Powerbook Ti G4 and set up the Appache server. (Terrasoft did a very nice job for those of us that don't know much about web servers. Almost all the work is done.)
It worked like a charm. Once I got YDL 5.0.2 on the mother node I just set up the mother node as a web server and then installed YDL on the rest of the nodes. For my work, YDL 5.0.2 has been a godsend. PS: You can't use Mac OSX for this since it clips the file names. -- Jeffrey S Fox Professor Department of Mathematics Center for Neuroscience University of Colorado 395 UCB Boulder CO 80309-0395 303 492 6418 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9/5/07 8:28 PM, "Bill Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Atro Tossavainen wrote: > >>> I'd install YDL 5.0.2 onto an external FireWire drive, >> >> Easier said than done. YDL 5.0.2 refuses to recognize the external >> FireWire drive (a Maxtor 5000DV) as anything it will agree to install >> to. I've tried having the drive connected when I boot the machine >> as well as plugging it in afterwards; I've disconnected the internal >> IDE hard drives; I've made sure that sbp2 is loaded, that I see the >> kernel messages related to plugging in the drive, and I've even hand- >> made the b,8,0 /dev entry for sda (which YDL didn't create when it >> loaded sbp2 and the drive was present) so I could run pdisk on it. >> Everything is working fine as far as the hardware goes. YDL just >> won't play with me. >> >> I suppose I haven't tried hand-loading sd_mod yet... >> >> But this is supposed to be Apple... Easy to work with and no Linux >> nerd tweaking required, right? :-) > > Ya, it should be easier, but unfortunately it often isn't. It seems > you're a fair ways along if you've been able to use pdisk to partition > the external FireWire disk. You may also need to manually format > the boot partition with hformat, the swap partition with mkswap, and > the root partition with mkfs (or mkfs.ext3). Then you need to mount > the root partition where the installer expects to find it (it's been > quite a while since I played these kinds of fun and games so I don't > recall what the installer uses as a mount point). I haven't actually > tried a 5.0.2 install so can't personally vouch for any of this, but > if you can get this far, then you would just continue the install to > install all the desired RPM packages. After that you could chroot > into the installed system, edit the /etc/yaboot.conf file as described > in the HOWTO, run "ybin -v", and finally hopefully reboot to the > external FireWire disk. You could then use that as a platform to > construct a bootable root file system on the internal RAID disks. > > -Good luck > > -Bill > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
