Checkout Adélie Linux, which is based on Gentoo. AFAIK, they require that you customize a stock Gentoo install. Be warned that they provide very few (if any) support. For this reason I way prefer Rocks Cluster that is really a breeze to install, but they do not have the bootp paradigm... each node is a full image on it's own, but managmenet is centralized thrue the headnode.
Cheers! Le samedi 19 novembre 2005 à 20:47 -0800, Donnie Berkholz a écrit : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mathias Weigt wrote: > | Donnie Berkholz wrote: > |> What exactly do you want more detail about? > | > | > | "They boot to an initrd containing busybox, then proceed to mount > | necessary bits from a read-only NFS export and other bits via tmpfs > | where they need to write, then pivot_root into the new NFS root." > | > | I'd like like some instructions how to do these things you wrote above. > | If you don't like to write a huge essay, I don't mind getting it step > | by step. > > A linuxrc file does all sorts of stuff. linuxrc is a file within an > initrd that gets automatically executed when booting into the initrd. > The initial, skeletal linuxrc downloads a more complex script called > linuxrc.real from the NFS server and executes that. > > The more complex script mounts a number of NFS exports (/ and so on), > then mounts tmpfs for the areas that need write permissions (chunks of > /var and so forth). Another option here would be a unionfs, but I > haven't looked into it. > > Originally, I got both of them from xmerlin (another dev), and modified > them a bit to fit my circumstances. I'll look around a bit to see > whether I can find them, and send them along. > > Another thing you'll want to look into at this point is using initramfs > instead of initrd. initramfs is initrd's successor and operates a bit > differently. > > Thanks, > Donnie > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDf//4XVaO67S1rtsRAs96AKCx9wBPSplknmDund3Pj98CufCu0gCePpP8 > aVhbOADoW+2ZBSLkmdxaCNw= > =4Hi0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
