Hello Kevin & Daniel, "Daniel Gruner" <[email protected]> writes:
> Yeah, you don't even need a VNFS image in order to boot into xcpu! > All you need is the initial busybox provided by perceus and activating > the perceus xcpu module "perceus module activate xcpu". This will > give you a minimal xcpu node, and you can then add remote filesystems > for mounting if necessary. You only really need user files, if at > all, since the executables that you run with xrx take the necessary > libraries along automagically. I'll have another go at perceus then. I'll read the docs more carefully over the weekend and try again on Monday. In the meantime, I have to do some work, unfortunately. > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Kevin Tegtmeier <[email protected]> wrote: >> How much RAM do you have? Typically the way to go in this type of situation >> is to boot off a minimal boot image, retrieve 2nd stage kernel and minimal >> root file system and NFS mount the rest (less frequently used libraries, man >> pages, etc). The hybridization process should be documented on the Perceus >> website. >> The boxes I'm using at the moment have 128 to 256 MB of RAM. (My colleagues here seem to buy a new office machine each about every two years. I have a standing order with our computer guy - havn't bought a computer in 10 years). I'll look again at the perceus web site. No doubt I'll be back asking questions again next week. Thanks again for the help, Roger
