Re: [Etherboot-users] Hi etherboot users...

[Carl K. <ca...@pe...>]

Rene Harb wrote:
> Many thank Carl,
> I will be looking for the help you send me ...
> 
> 
> The cluster is beowulf without harddisk. can you tell me what is the first
> step that I have to do for the cluster. I know ltsp, I have been configured
> it and it work very Good.

fist step: more research ;)

Why Beowulf? I have never done any clustering, but from what I read it seems 
that much like there are many Linux desktop distros, there are now many cluster 
distros.  so unless there is some reason none of them will work for you 
(doubtful)...

for instance:  "ParallelKnoppix is a Knoppix based CD that allows the user to 
set up a cluster of machines for parallel processing using LAM-MPI or MPICH. It 
takes less than 15 minutes to set the cluster up, and the slave nodes can 
PXE-boot." http://lcic.org/distros.html


but back to your questions about Beowulf, this looks pretty good: 
http://frank.harvard.edu/~coldwell/diskless


> 
> from where can I download the knoppix Terminal server distro, to implement
> it?

http://knoppix.com - it isn't a special knoppix, just an option on the standard 
one: app menu, knoppix, services, "start knoppix terminal server" and you will 
get a bunch of dialogs asking how you want it configured.

I like to use the BT downloads - very fast and doesn't use any of the mirrors 
bandwidth: http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de

^Carl

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