Re: [SSI-users] trying to build OpenSSI [with 2.6.14 kernel] from source

[Cumberland, L. <lon...@ni...>]

Greetings Scott and John (and others that may have some insight on the installation process),

I hope that all is well with you today.

As you know, I have tried to some time to get the OpenSSI to install on our 64-bit machines that have the E1000 network cards and SCSI hotswap drives with little to no success. 

With this in mind, I decided to fall back to the 32-bit version of OpenSSI and try it from there after installing the base "Lenny" Debian.

I grabbed the "Small CD" i386 from:

http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst

and installed the basic setup in "Graphical Install" followed by setting up the source locations and network interfaces (eth0 for Internet and eth1 for cluster-interconnect on 192.168.xx.xx subnet)

After the basic Debian install was completed, I have gone through and tried to follow the instructions once from:

http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-lenny-preview/

which failed and also once more from the "install log" at:

http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-lenny-preview/install-log.html

in each case, I did exactly what was said wit the additions of in:

Step 

10: Edited the  /etc/mkinitrd/modules and added the network driver: e1000
    Followed by: mkinited -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-ssi-686-smp 2.6.12-ssi-686-smp

11: The listed modprobe ext2
               modprobe ext3
               modprobe loop 
               modprobe e1000

now it seems that the system, once rebooted cannot mount the filesystem.

I have to ask what exact procedure you or others have used and if you have the log files from an install that works since I am at a loss as to why this procedure is not working as it seems like it should.

Can you please let me know what might be happening and how I can proceed to get OpenSSI installed on a fresh "Lenny" Debian system which I am now setting up?

Thanks and have a great day,
Lonnie Cumberland, Prof.
Physicist

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ionizing Radiation Division (846)
Radiation Physics Group (245), Room C106
ADDRESS:
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