Viduneth, I can’t speak to most of these items because I haven’t personally done the dev work for our ROACH2 system, but I can report that we currently NFS boot from a debian 9.5 server, we’ve also used ubuntu 16.04.5 not so long ago.
I’ll note that, at least in our case, the ROACH2 expected to use NFSv2, which was disabled by default on debian 9 (in /proc/fs/nfsd/versions). I’m not sure what the default behavior on ubuntu 18.04 is, but something equivalent may be required there. On Oct 26, 2018, at 4:41 AM, Viduneth Ariyarathna <vidun...@gmail.com<mailto:vidun...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear Casperites, I am trying to set up an NFS boot system to boot the ROACH-2s and program them on a fresh server. I have done this before, but a couple of years back with Ubuntu 12.04 OS (with Xilinx 14.4 and Matlab 2012b for MSSGE flow). Starting this task now I would like to see the possibilities of moving to a newer Ubuntu version (16.04 LTS 18.04 LTS) or any other modern Linux distribution without being stuck to Ubuntu 12.04. I would be much grateful if any experienced personnel would give me some inputs on this regard. Specific concerns: 1). I understand that Xilinx 14.x and Matlab 2012b are a constraint for doing the compilation for ROACH-2. And I hope the NFS boot setup could go in any of the newer Linux distributions. 2). If I use these newer Ubuntu OSs will there be any restrictions for installing Xilinx 14.4 and Matlab 2012b ion them? 3). We use the ADC16x250-8 cards with ROACH-2s quite often and use the Casper provided python scripts for programming them. I don't think these scripts are OS depended as far as we have the dependencies in the correct versions. But I wanted to know if the OS version will impose any constraints on installing these dependencies... Thanks so much for your time on this, Viduneth -- Research Assistant, Florida International University, Miami, FL. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:casper@lists.berkeley.edu>" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu>. To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:casper@lists.berkeley.edu>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu.
