All you need to setup PXE is the tftp and dhcp packages. And of coarse, machines that will support net boot.
-Jared On 11/17/05, Eric Thibodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would have scanned the mailling list for this but never found the search > engine for it... > > As the title says, I would love to see a Gentoo clustering solution based on > the www.clustermatic.org/www.ltsp.org approach (basically, PXE booted OS). In > fact, work on this would open up Gentoo to both clustering and LTSP usage. > Most of the work that needs to be done, if I am not mistaken, is to create a > Gentoo environment which is NFS bootable as done with LTSP. We could then > "easily" manage the tolls and utilities available on the slave nodes by using > portage. Obviously, there is also some kernel tweaking involved but we can > start from some previous work done in that aera in all cases. > > I am actually asked to build a Gentoo based cluster next semester and I would > definately like to build it to be as flexible and scalable as possible. I > believe that the above approach fits these requirements quite well. So I'm > opened to any suggestions for this project. Obviously, I'll document this and > attempt to make the procedure as accessible to anyone as possible. > > Future work would probably be to seamlessly integrate OpenPBS into such a > PXE-able environment to enable it to reboot/configure nodes as required for > given tasks/profiles. > > Thanks, > > Eric Thibodeau > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
