On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Kyndig Renshai wrote:

>  I'm using oscar 1.2.1.  Linux 7.1.  on 3 266mhz and a 166mhz machine.
> I have tried 2 of the 3 solutions to get all the machines working as a
> cluster. (In this attempt I removed the smp kernel rpm and lam rpm and
> replaced them with i386's.  So far while the 3 266mhz will function
> correctly, however, they still will not run the tests (last part of the
> oscar suit -located in OSCAR_tests).

The i386 (i.e., vanilla non-OSCAR-ized) LAM RPM from www.lam-mpi.org
installs into a different place than the OSCAR RPM.

Also, the profile.d scripts are not in the LAM RPM that's in OSCAR 1.2.1,
nor are they in the vanilla LAM RPM.  They are created in a post-install
script in OSCAR 1.2.1.  If the LAM RPM failed to install during the normal
OSCAR install, I'm guessing that the profile.d scripts were also not
created.

Hence, if you try to run LAM programs, you run into Badness.

> Ok - a possible feature for the oscar team is creating images for
> pre-686 machines (which might also include a probe for the types of hd

The group has decided to make all RPMs for future versions of OSCAR be for
i586.  So the new LAM RPM that is in CVS are i586.  There's also a second
LAM RPM that installs the profile.d scripts.

You might want to browse to:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/oscar/oscar/packages/lam/RPMS/

and download the following files:

        lam-6.5.6-usysv.1oscar.i586.rpm
        lam-profile-d-6.5.6-usysv.1oscar.i586.rpm

Uninstall your current LAM RPM and install these two, and you should be
good to go.  Let us know how it goes.

> [snipped]
> machines that were tossed aside for upgrades.  I don't see any reason
> why commodity machines cannot include low end (once before high end
> products) as clusters.

The main problem, actually, is that we don't have any low-end clusters to
test on.  Indeed, no one in the group has pure 586's to test on anymore
(!).  So even though we're going to be making i586 RPMs, we'll still only
going to formally support i686 and document that "i586 *should* work".
:-\

I'll let the other group members address your other comments -- they know
more about the partition tables and whatnot than I.  :-)

{+} Jeff Squyres
{+} [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{+} http://www.lam-mpi.org/


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