[SSI-users] Better documentation for source-install of openSSI?

[Paul K. <pau...@am...>]

I'm trying to set up an openSSI cluster using RedHat 7.3  (glibc 2.2).
Obviously I can't use the binary installation, since it depends on
having RedHat 9 installed.  I presume that openSSI can be built on older
platforms (like 7.3), but it has to be built from source.  I tried
following the instructions in the "building from source" on the openSSI
website (http://openssi.org/install.shtml), but I found the instructions
apallingly terse.  Beyond building the kernel the documentation says
virtually nothing about the rest of the configuration that normally
happens in an RPM-based install.

Unpacking the source RPMs aren't of much use either -- all I end up with
is a /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES directory full of hundreds of patches and
miscellaneous packages, but no documentation saying how it should be put
together.  The best I could come up with was to patch all the packages
with their corresponding patch files, compile and pray.  I got useable
binaries, but without directions showing how the binaries all get packed
into a nice little netboot ramdisk, I'm basically stuck in the water.

I really like the features that openSSI provides, and I really want to
make it work.  Am I missing some documentation somewhere?  There's got
to be more out there than what (http://openssi.org/docs.shtml) shows.

Thanks!

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