Le 17 Novembre 2005 10:31, Donnie Berkholz a écrit : > Eric Thibodeau wrote: > > The way I see it, multiple Gentoo roots would be available (different > > machine profiles/optimisation) and they would be specified in the DHCP > > server's > > config file as simply as any PXE entry.... So I am not too sure I > > understand your "couple of ROOT=/foo" _and_ the busybox one... > > I just had a single NFS root for all the nodes; didn't have time to get > more sophisticated. So the couple of ROOT was one NFS, one busybox.
The way I interpret this is that the nodes actually booted a busybox environment, not Gentoo...am-I getting this wrong? [...snip...] > > No reason to chroot, loop mount and all that garbage if you're just > doing package management. Just start by unpacking a stage there, and then: > > ROOT=/path/to/diskless emerge -up world Ahhh... /me has some polishing up to do about portage (my last read of the documentation dates back 2.5 years ;) Some other really neat stuff I'd like to implement into the Gentoo-ified PXE/Dynamic cluster (apart from the other obvious stuff like OpenPBS, lam-mpi, etc): BProc kernel patches http://bproc.sourceforge.net/ CheckpointRestart http://ftg.lbl.gov/CheckpointRestart/CheckpointRestart.shtml (for cluster-by-night usage of lab computers at the U ;P ) Eric Thibodeau -- [email protected] mailing list
