On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 12:08, Ashish Navaney wrote: > Hi, > > I am an undergrad comp engg student planning to use OSCAR 2.2 to > build a cluster of 10 nodes. > > My basic problem concerns the unavailability of pxe enabled n/w > card & floppy drive though i do have CD-ROM drives. > > I am working on the assumption that the basic functionality of > n/w boot lies only in bringing up the node as a cluster node and > is not reqd until the cluster needs to be scaled. > > My questions are : > > 1. Is it possible to perform CD-based installs? > > If yes, how?
Yes, there is a mkautoinstallcd command that ships with SIS. Using that and a CD-R drive, you can create a CD that will perform just like the floppy does. > > 2. Is it possible to perform the image installation manually > (using > rsync or otherwise) bypassing floppy boot/PXE enabled network > boot > altogether? > > If yes, what are the steps that are required to be carried > out? > > Awaiting prompt help... > Thx, > Ashish Navaney > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Odomos - the only mosquito protection outside 4 walls - > Click here to know more! > http://r.rediff.com/r?http://clients.rediff.com/odomos/Odomos.htm&&odomos&&wn > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! > Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and > the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users -- Michael Chase-Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Systems Technology Poughkeepsie, NY System Installation Suite www.sisuite.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
