Hello there, We were trying the latest release on an 8-node cluster. Previously, we were using FC 5 and Oscar 5 successfully. As our system grew out of date, it was hacked. And we wanted to reinstall it. However, we could not manage to get the latest release to work with ubuntu 8.1.
We ran into several problems. Had to change/fix many things and had to babysit the installation wizard through its myriad of failures to install packages etc. tftp server didn't work, had to set it up, had to make minor edits in the scripts to avoid perl warnings. We used the ide disk partition example, the only relevant bit of configuration that I can think of. In the end we did manage to finish the installation on a client node but the kernel that is installed (probably the latest in ubuntu 8.1) cannot find the root device /dev/hda6 (although the filesystem is installed there) and throws ups its arms in panic. We think there might be a problem with the lilo configuration or a conflict with the disk partitioning configuration but we couldn't find locate the source of the error yet. On the client we noticed several "nc: cannot connect..." errors but those seem irrelevant. Client installation monitoring doesn't seem to work. Which kernel package is installed and how can we modify it? How can we make sure that a right kernel package is installed on the client on ubuntu 8.1? Was only ubuntu 8.0 supported? Was that our mistake? Have debian based systems been tested with this release? We did notice that the client image builder was trying to install obsolete packages like initrd-tools and a non-existent kernel package (kernel-image-686 I think). We don't really have time to peruse the perl sources, unfortunately. So, which distribution was tested with this latest release? How can we get it to work on top of a vanilla server installation? If possible, we would just like to use whatever distro works best with this new OSCAR release. Please help! Many thanks in advance, -- Eray Ozkural & Ata Turk -- Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara Research Assistant, Erendiz Supercomputer Inc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ai-philosophy http://myspace.com/arizanesil http://myspace.com/malfunct ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
