Hi, for the current SVN version of OSCAR trunk (3407) the flamethrower/multicast deployment works, I just tested it with rhel4-i386. It needed a bit of tweaking in systeminstaller-1.04-8oscar and a bit of debugging in systemimager-3.5.3-6oscar.
Some things to have in mind: - if you have a gigabit network, change the MAX_BITRATE in /etc/systemimager/flamethrower.conf to something above 200M. - when doing "Step 6: Network Setup" click the "Enable Multicast" and the "Configure DHCP Server" buttons. The "Enable Multicast" flag is not remembered, when opening this panel again, you need to click it again. - you should open the "monitor cluster deployment" window (si_monitor) otherwise you'll see (uncritical) error messages on the install clients. - the overrides directory is not configured into the current systeminstaller, therefore it is simply ignored in the multicast deployment. For OSCAR this doesn't play any role, but we'll have to fix it in mksiimage. All tools from systemimager (si_cpimage and relatives) deal correctly with the overrides directory. I find per node overrides much more interesting than per image overrides, but that's another story. I also added a small SCSI adapter detection routine to the systemimager. If there is no hardware.lst file in the image _and_ a SCSI adapter is detected, a corresponding hardware.lst file will be created. All my hardware needs these files and it's painfull to find out after deployment that your kernel doesn't boot because it misses the scsi module in initrd... Happy testing... Erich ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
