Re: [BProc] New bproc/beoboot/clubmask

[Daniel G. <dg...@ti...>]

Greg,

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:36:38PM -0500, Gregory Shakhnarovich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have a working cluster with Debian 2.4.20 + Bproc 3.2.5 + Clubmask
> 0.5b85 + Maui 3.2.6, and we want to upgrade it. In this context, I'd
> appreciate any answers to the following:
> 
> 1) What is the recommended *stable* (and recent) release of Bproc? is it
> 3.2.6, or is some of the 4.0.xpre OK? The same question about beoboot - we
> have 1.5 right now, seems that 1.8 is the latest; is it stable?

Clubmask 0.6b2 does not compile with BProc 4.  The API for BProc has
changed.  I was trying to install Clubmask on a clustermatic 4 cluster,
and failed because of it.  I got a note from Nic Henke about it, which
I will forward to you.

> 
> 2) What 2.4.x kernels are supported by this latest version? Ideally we
> would like to use 2.4.24 but it looks like 2.4.22 is the latest with a
> patch in the Bproc distribution - anybody tried it with 2.4.24?

I am only using whatever is in the clustermatic distributions, either
version 3 or 4.

> 
> 3) Although we somehow figured out last time how to install all the stuff
> (as evidenced by the working cluster :) we can't for the life of us recall
> what exactly is the sequence of operations to create the beoboot image
> (for the nodes); i.e., after donwloading and un-taring the directory, what
> do we do next? We could't find _any_ docs with the beoboot1.8 release, or
> on the Bproc project site. We would appreciate any pointer to docs, or
> some help in the form of instructions...

Running "beoboot --help" gives you the options.  The kernel version
should be specified in /etc/beoboot/config, and the list of drivers to include
in the ramdisk is specified in /etc/beoboot/config.boot.

> 
> 4) For Clubmask users: what is the recommended version of Bproc that is
> stable with Clubmask 0.62 (the latest release)? 

Again, I believe any version of BProc in the 3.2 series should work.

Regards,
Daniel
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