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Hi, we are using a SLES10 Patchlevel 3 with 12 Nodes hosting tomcat application servers. The cluster was running some time (about 200 days) without problems. Recently we needed to shutdown the cluster for maintenance and experianced very long times for the umount of the filesystem. It took something like 45 minutes each node and filesystem (12 x 45 minutes shutdown time). As a result the planned

Hello, we are very happy to announce the availability of the first official release candidate of the com.oonics open shared root cluster installation DVD (RC3). The com.oonics open shared root cluster installation DVD allows the installation of a single node open shared root cluster with the use of anaconda, the well known installation software provided by Red Hat. After the installation,

Hello, we are very happy to announce the availability of the last and final official release candidate of the com.oonics open shared root cluster installation DVD (RC4). The com.oonics open shared root cluster installation DVD allows the installation of a single node open shared root cluster with the use of anaconda, the well known installation software provided by Red Hat. After the

Hi all, We are running CentOS 5.2 64bit as our file server. Currently, we used GFS (with CLVM underneath it) as our filesystem (for our multiple 2TB SAN volume exports) since we plan to add more file servers (serving the same contents) later on. The issue we are facing at the moment is we found out that command such as 'ls' gives a very slow response.(e.g 3-4minutes for the outputs of ls

Hi folks, I've followed a set of instructions I found on http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/centos_linux_guides/centos_enterprise_linux_sysadmin_guide/ch-diskless.htmli which describes using system-config-netboot to set up PXE booting. I used a CentOS-4.3 install (custom, all options de-selected, then anaconda-busybox installed after the fact) as a reference/base. I followed the

I'm trying to boot RedHat 9.0 on a diskless PC from a head machine running Redhat 9.0. The network appears to be setup correctly. I can boot the installation disk image fine using pxelinux. What I am trying to setup is a number of different Linux systems each with its own root directory on the head machine. I am hoping that I don't have to modify the kernel for any of these systems.

Using Centos 5.2 upgraded from 5.0 using yum on a couple of old Dells in a lab environment. I don't think hardware is part of the problem, just need configuration help. 1: I can boot the diskless client and it come up, but when I do a "mount" command on the client, the output is indistinguishable from the output of the mount command on the server. Currently the fstab in

Im trying to get a diskless boot set up under CentOS 5.2, and having no luck at all. I am to the point of running system-config-netboot, and whatever information I put in, I get an error message. Responding to the 2nd button on the first popup, which asks for NFS info, I put in the IP address of the current machine (the machine that will hold the boot images for the diskless machine) and the

Hi, I am working on the diskless booting over Infiniband networks. At the moment we have created and implemented architecture which allow diskless booting of Linux nodes on x86, x86_64 and Itanium platforms. The system works by booting first small custom made Linux kernel of the Infiniband adapter ROM. The kernel has enough of infiniband stack to setup TCP/IP networking over infiniband. Then it

Does anyone have any good how-to's or documentation on setting up read only root NFS for pxe booting diskless computers? A few months ago I stumbled upon an official Redhat doc through a google search(not hosted by redhat and I cannot find it anywhere on the Redhat site) written by Dave Kline named "Configuring diskless clients with Red Hat Enterprise Linux" from 2011. It seemed to

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, Someone on the list today was asking about diskless clients. I have a guide written for doing diskless clients across NFS and PXE. I noticed there was nothing existing on the wiki for such a thing. I wanted to ask before I created the main category "Diskless Clients" under the How To page. Any objections to that there? Or suggest

Hi. I wanted to set diskless win95 but I read the list archives and I decided not to do it diskless. So I tried diskless windows but I got a problem. I do this. 1.- I did booting images with bootware proms. 2.- I managed to install DOS clients from microsoft. That was painfull because the one I downloaded from MS didn't connected to my samba server. I used a dos clients that creates a NT

Hi all, Sorry, this might be a bit off topic, but I'm not sure of the best place to ask. I'm booting a diskless PC with PXELinux, and the kernel loads successfully and I can log in and use the system as you'd expect. I have done this before, however this time I decided to try using ClusterNFS so that the diskless clients can share the boot server's filesystem. Unfortunately

Hello everyone, I have a problem with setting up a diskless system on CentOS. Currently I have successfully set up a small cluster of diskless clients following the following available HowTos: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/DisklessClients https://coda.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/CentOS6_Linux_Diskless_Setup The client system is CentOS 5.10 and the system is read-only. It has been working fine for a

Hi We like to build Diskless clusters. Where should we go to know how to build Diskless X server running in Centos6.2? Y.Nishimura

Hello, I've had quite a few requests for this info, so I thought I'd copy this to the list as well. Since I don't really monitor the list anymore, queries should be directed back to me if you have problems. On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 04:08, Sjur Eivind Usken wrote: > Dear Ben, > > I saw your posting on the newslist about the diskless configuration you have > done. > >

Hey CentOS list! I've got an oddity with a diskless client setup that I suspect is the result of the initrd.img I'm using, or some parameter I'm unaware -- or I need to build my own initrd image (and could use some assistance on what has to be done in that department) Testbed is defined as: VM A: ip: 192.168.250.10 with dhcp server, tftp server, nfs server VM B: pxeboot VM,

Clary Harridge asked... > we are interested in booting Win95 diskless from a SAMBA server. Peter Debus <pdebus@turing.une.edu.au> cautioned | Unfortunately there is no other option I am aware of, other than booting | from an NT server - which I have been told, but have not experienced | myself, is painfully slow if booting a whole computer lab at once, with | clients timing out and

OK, I did this once, several years ago, but I have to do it again, and I cant figure out what this stupid error message is trying to say. I am executing system-config-netboot trying to create a diskless client for a diskless boot I constantly get a popup, with different error messages. I try to 'fix' something, and I get a different popup. The current one says: You

I am having a problem with setting up diskless clients under CentOS 5.2. I have everything working under CentOS 4.7. This is an adaptation of the (somewhat old) Diskless Linux with PXE HOWTO by Gerd v. Egidy, originally at the URL http://www.intra2net.com/opensource/diskless-howto/, which is now defunt (there is a mirror of it at http://blog.chinaunix.net/u/2389/showart_82438.html). What I am