Hello Vuko, when you have updated the image on the server you can use cpushimage from the C3 tools to update the client nodes. It is not necessary to do a complete reinstall the clients.
Rainer > Every time you reinstall the clients because of an update > to the image on the server (e.g. updated RPM), you need > to let your clients reboot from the network (PXE) or from > a floppy. Now once your clients have reinstalled themselves, > you want them of course to reboot from their own system > on their local disks. To do that, you need either to remove > the floppy from the drive or to change the boot sequence > in the BIOS, which means a human intervention on all > worker nodes after every system update. This is clearly > unacceptable for a cluster containing a large number > of machines. Given that I am working on building a > system which will contain up to 1000 worker nodes and > which is likely to experience ver frequent software > updates, I need to find a solution to this problem. > > Thank you, > > Vuko __________________________________ Dr. Rainer Schweinfest Atomistic Simulation Group School of Mathematics and Physics The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland tel.:+44 (0)2890 273528 fax.:+44 (0)2890 241958 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
