Chuck Ritter wrote: > > First, there is an OSCAR 5.2b2 that is preferred to 5.1rc1. >
Thanks. I haven't run across it yet, though. Google doesn't seem to know about it. Can you give a pointer? > If you are not using dhcp in the image setting, then client should > never attempt dhcp (after initial node imaging). Something is wrong. > This has been on my mind. I have this nagging suspicion that some script or program is deciding what interface to use and coming up with Infiniband instead of Ethernet. Maybe it has to do with device numbers or something. Would an unconfigured interface default to DHCP? > This sounds like the issue that I had where the node was imaged but > the image was damaged. In my case, this happened because the OS > release was unsupported (or at least untested). It had to due with > aliases for mv/cp/rm being added to the root account of the RH5.4 > release. As I recall. > > Try an earlier release (on the head node image). That may resolve it. > You can always patch up. Alternatively, deal with the aliases before > running the oscar install wizard (remove the aliases from > ~root/.bashrc and logout and login). > I've been trying various older distributions today. With 5.1, step 3 comes to a halt because it's looking for repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2 from the CentOS mirror. But it provides a file called filelists.xml.gz instead. It appears that CentOS 5.4 is the first version in which the sqlite version occurred. When I used 5.4, it halted on the same file, saying "Metadata file does not match checksum". I've been trying to figure out where it gets the checksum, so far without success. I undid the aliases for mv,cp,rm but that had no effect. When I'm stuck on step 3, can I switch distro versions by just editing /tftpboot/distro/centos-5-x86_64.url ? Is there anything else that needs to be changed? > By the way... what distribution are you using? > CentOS. The head node is version 5.5. Are you suggesting that the head node and the clients should have the same version of CentOS? I hope not. Developers are installing stuff on the head node and champing at the bit to get the cluster running. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
