Hi!
In answer to your question 1:
I am also still a newbie, but I used the 5.1rc version for a small cluster
on Fedora 8 last year. It works okay.
I can't really answer question 2 or 3. But you could perhaps check on the
Sourceforge account to see what is downloadable for what distro for 5.x.
Perhaps the best would be to try what you want and see how it turns out. I
wasted a lot of time wondering about things and wanting all the answers
before venturing forth, but I guess sometimes one should rather just give it
a try. If it doesn't work, at least you've eliminated one of the possible
options.
Hope that helps a tiny little bit.
;-)
Rion
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Patrick Nolan
<patrick.no...@stanford.edu>wrote:
> I am about to install OSCAR, and I have some questions that aren't
> resolved by reading the documents.
>
> 1. What version should I install? I got the "latest release", which
> turns out to be 6.0.5. It comes with a bold-face warning that it's
> "not necessarily suited for production". So I looked at version 5.1.
> I found branches called "rc1" and "beta2". Neither of those sounds like
> a stable release. Is 5.0 the one for me?
>
> 2. What about disk partitions on the clients? From the installation
> manual it's not clear if the installation procedure repartitions and
> reformats the clients' disks. I would like to do something a little
> bit exotic. The clients each have two 300 GB disks. I want to have
> two partitions on each disk, 32 GB for swap and 272 GB for files.
> Then I want to use software RAID to mirror the two big partitions
> as a single 272 GB logical device. Can OSCAR deal with this?
>
> 3. What CentOS version? The head node runs the current version, 5.5.
> OSCAR 6.0.5 wants to install 5.4 on the clients. I don't know what
> OSCAR 5.x would use. Is there some way to use CentOS 5.5 on the
> clients?
>
>
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