From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat 04/06/2005 12:57 PM
To: Bernard Li
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Oscar installation with supermicro X5DPA-GG motherboard
I tried FC3, following the steps you noted on the website. One
of the nodes
installed fine and the networking worked first time around.
However, I
tried the others and they all failed during installation. They
seemed to
hang part way through installation, during the packages upload (the
screen
did not update for more than one hour, so I assumed the install
had
failed). This happened a number of times (I tried 8 nodes and all
failed
twice).
I then tried FC2 and the first install went OK, but I
needed to do the
modprobe.conf trick you note in the manual. After that, all
the newer nodes
have installed successfully. I haven't tried the older ones
yet. I assume I
remove the modprobe.conf from the image directory for
these.
So I'll stick with FC2 for now. I might try a later version of EL3
another
time (we currently have a full site license, so we have access to
all
versions). But I want a working machine, so I'll stick for
now!
Thanks again for your help,
Martin
Bates
Quoting Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hey
Martin:
>
> Remember to read this message if you intend to go with
FC3 - it has
> important steps to get OSCAR 4.1 working with
FC3:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11812982
>
>
BTW, chances are if you have a newer update version of RHEL3 (eg. U4 or
>
U5), they'll work with your network card too.
>
>
Cheers,
>
> Bernard
>
>
________________________________
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
Sent: Sat 04/06/2005 2:33 AM
> To: Bernard Li
> Cc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
> Subject: RE:
[Oscar-users] Oscar installation with supermicro X5DPA-GG
>
motherboard
>
>
>
>
> Hopefully it should be
sorted.
>
> I tried installing "rocks" and this installed fine on
the host and the
> nodes, all talk to each other fine, so all the
equipment works!
>
> I have then installed FC3 on one of the nodes
from CD (minimal
> installation)
> and this can ssh to the other
nodes and the host with no problem.
>
> So I'll strip everything off
again, install FC3 on the host and try again
> from there. If it doesn;t
work, I guess I'll stick with rocks, although
> I'd
> prefer to go
with something I already know.
>
> Thanks for your
help.
>
> Martin Bates
>
>
> Quoting Bernard Li
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Hi Martin:
> >
> >
I just checked the version of the e1000 driver that came with Fedora
>
Core
> > 2 and it is 5.2.39 (version which supports your board).
Therefore, you
> > can try to install your cluster using Fedora Core 2
or 3.
> >
> > However, I'm not sure whether you still need to
update your BIOS or
> > not...
> >
> > Good
luck,
> >
> > Bernard
> >
> >
________________________________
> >
> > From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Sent: Fri 03/06/2005 12:02 PM
> > To: Bernard Li
> > Cc:
[email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Oscar
installation with supermicro X5DPA-GG
> > motherboard
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > > > and make sure
to have latest bios installed R1.0C
> > > > http://www.supermicro.com/support/bios/
>
> >
> > > Are you running the latest BIOS?
>
>
> > Probably not. I don't know how to update this. These machines
are in
> rack
> > mount cases, and do not have CDs or floppy
drives in and I cannot
> easily
> > put in an extra ethernet card
either to test them. I can take the lot
> > apart
> > and put
a floppy in each one, one by one, but there seems to be the
> >
problem
> > that there are no (small) power connectors for floppy
drives.
> >
> > I'm going to have to leave it until after the
weekend to decide what to
> > do
> > with these.
>
>
> > I seriously advise anyone considering using OSCAR not to buy
this
> > supermicro
> > board - I've already wasted two weeks
trying to install in them. The
> > vendor
> > that sold me
these machines said they were fully Linux compliant, but
> > clearly
the supermicro boards are not as easy to use as other boards by
> >
ASUS or TYAN that I have used in the past.
> >
> >
>
>
> >
> >
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