From: Jim C. <j_c...@ho...> - 2002-03-22 21:34:20
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Hmmm, that could very well be the case. I will double check that later when I get around to installing. That would be the standard command for mkinitrd? i.e.: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-MOSIX-[version] [module directory] Followed by whatever fiddling with lilo. It seems odd to me that this would not be done by the install scripts, though. The MOSIX installation package I tried last was a Perl script instead of a bash script and I do not read Perl so I could not check to see what was being done. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sebastien Premont" <pre...@no...> To: "Jim C." <j_c...@ho...> Cc: <Ope...@li...> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [Openmosix-general] Re: [Openmosix-devel] New version, RPMS and install scripts On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jim C. wrote: > Well all I know is that, while I've always liked the idea of MOSIX, I've > never been able to successfully install any particular version of it. I > don't know if it is because I use Mandrake or because MOSIX doesn't like > Athlons or what. I've tried RPM packages and I've tried tar'ed and gzip'ed i've installed both MOSIX and openMosix on an atlhon system. Here's my system spec : Althon 1Gig AV7-133 512mb ram GeForce2 GTS and 2 network card ( 8139 and ne2k-pci ) one LG burner scsi card usig sym53x8xx kenwood cd-rom SCSI and i also use software RAID0 without problems i really don't know why you can't boot MOSIX. It's probably a hardware problem or you didn't choose the correct options. Maybe also you had an initrd before which you didn't redo with the mosix kernel ? > files. I've tried both manual and automated installations and I know that > one has to have the right GNU kernel. Still, I've yet to get passed "kernel > panic" on startup. Then, of course, the uninstall script fails and I have to > run the Mandrake install programs to fix everything (it is the most > efficient way since all of my user files are on an NFS mount). Admittedly I > haven't tried openMOSIX yet but I don't see why it would be any different. > Too me the difficulty in installation makes MOSIX not particularly useful. > Merely something one looks at and says "Wow, that would be cool if it > worked." just like a host of other Linux packages. As a person with 2 (now > closing fast on 3) degrees in computer science, I like to think that I am > not so incompetent that I cannot handle such a task. ;) > > But again I've not tried openMOSIX yet. I will get around to it soon though > as I had planned writing my Master's thesis on it, this summer. <chuckle> > At this rate though, perhaps I should consider an alternate topic. ;) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Moshe Bar" <moshe@Moelabs.com> > To: "Martin Høy" <mar...@pv...> > Cc: <ope...@li...>; > <ope...@li...> > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:43 PM > Subject: [Openmosix-general] Re: [Openmosix-devel] New version, RPMS and > install scripts > > > Martin, you are the man! > > RPMS are very important for those who want to wet their feet before diving > into the sea of openMosix. > > well done :-) > > Moshe > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Martin Høy wrote: > > > > > I've put up a patch for version 2.4.17pre3 of the openmosix-kernel. The > > patch is against the current CVS (openMosix 1.5.4). > > > > Using this patch, I've also created various kernel-rmps for i386, i686 > > and athlon, both for smp and up. The .config-files used is fearly > > similar to the ones RedHat uses for their kernels, so it should support > > most hardware. > > > > If installed on a RedHat-7.2, the kernel-rpm contains scripts that will > > automatically add the kernel to the boot-loader (grub). In the case of > > older versions, you will have to edit /etc/lilo.conf yourself. > > > > I've also created an RPM with the openMosix userspace tools. This rpm > > contains scripts that will do everything needed to "install" > > openMosix. All you have to do is edit /etc/mosix.map to add your > > machines and reboot with the correct kernel. > > > > The userspace-tools.rpm also contains the binaries from the mps-package, > > which has openMosix-versions of ps and top which shows what node each > > process is running on. > > > > All files are available from the sourceforge-page. To avoid confusion, > > I'll no longer have RPMS in the previous announced location. > > > > > > All comments are welcome, > > > > Martin > > -- > > This is Unix land. > > In quiet nights you can hear ms-windows machines reboot. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmosix-devel mailing list > > Ope...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openmosix-devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmosix-general mailing list > Ope...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openmosix-general > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmosix-devel mailing list > Ope...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openmosix-devel > -- ----------------------------- Sebastien Premont seb...@no... _______________________________________________ Openmosix-devel mailing list Ope...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openmosix-devel |