Re: [SSI-users] initial setup for newbies

[Scott W. <sc...@sl...>]

Hi Dmitry,

My experience is with the development branch of OpenSSI (1.9.x).
Fedora seems to be an easier install target.  Debian changes
constantly.  It will really help if you know how to diagnose problems
in Linux in general.  Installing OpenSSI seems to take people several
tries.  You might want to read through the mailing list archives to
get an idea of the sorts of problems other people have had.  Because
of the older kernel OpenSSI is built on, newer hardware might not be
supported.  Your hard drive controller in particular might not be
supported.  You might have to stick a 66mhz IDE card into a PCI slot,
or find an older, supported SATA card.  Network cards in machines may
or may not be supported.  If the first node (or any other node) can't
figure out what it's MAC address is, it will stop.

Post a log of the install process and then the boot output.  At which
point it stops and what it says before it stops will be helpful in
figuring out what went wrong.

Good luck!
-scott


On 8/25/10, MatrixS_Master <mat...@ya...> wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> My name is Dmitry Soloviov and I'm newbie to OpenSSI. And, like a thread
> starter, got a lot of problems.
> First I tried install OSSI 1.9.6 on my favorite Lenny in VirtualBox VM.
> I've done steps 1-17 from this paper:
> http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-lenny-preview/
> On a last step I've receive a error "mkinitrd failed". Without any error
> description. I've repeat fresh install of Lenny and OpenSSI and nothing
> changed.
>
> Then I tried to install old Sarge (r7) and OpenSSI v1. My sources.list
> file looks like
> deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian sarge main contrib
> deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian-volatile/
> sarge/volatile main contrib
> security updates commented out
> in installation process.
>
> After installing a minimal system, I tried
> # echo "deb http://deb.openssi.org/openssi-v1/ ./"
>>> /etc/apt/sources.list
> modify apt preferences
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> # apt-get install openssi
>
> I answered to all of questions and program said that's all good. But
> after reboot new kernel not loading. Grub unpacking the kernel image and
> freezes. Kernel dead.
> I repeat all steps in fresh system, install kernel-patch-2.4-ipvs and
> run kernel with this parameters:
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2199.ntpl-ssi-686-smp devfs=mount
> root=/dev/hda1 ro
> Nothing changed. Kernel looks like dead or infinitely waiting for
> somewhat.
>
> I doubt about this situation. Where is my mistake? Can I install more
> new release and where in root deb.openssi.org I can found it?
> What OS would be preferable? Maybe I need to move to Fedora Core?
> I'm VERY interesting in SSI clustering. I have 5 machines in special 1G
> private network. They used independent and this is not comfortable.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dmitry.
>
>
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