Re: Question on adding nodes

On 8 March 2006 at 11:18, Ewald Geschwinde wrote:
| On 3/8/06, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote:
| >
| >
| > On 7 March 2006 at 19:58, Ewald Geschwinde wrote:
| > | I have now for testing purpoese a quantian cluster on the first node.
| > |
| > | I have started the openmosix terminal server and on the 2 nd node I
| > startet
| > | with etherboot cause this nic does not support PXE.
| 
| sorry for my misunderstanding explanation.
| 
| Do I understand you correctly as saying that
| >         a) Quantian runs on the head node
| >         b) you launched openmosixterminalserver, with the correct nic
| 
| a and b are correct.
| 
|         c) the slave node booted, showing that openmosixserver is
| >            running ok
| 
| I don't come to c) because he does not get an image for booting from the
| first node

Unless I misunderstand, this means you're not booting via PXE over the
network.  Which probably means that do not have the right network card
selected in the optnmosixterminalserver setup as that is the single biggest
point of failure.
 
| It only says "no Ipadresse" - I think he does not get an ip-adress from the
| dhcp but the dhcp server is running.
| 
| Maybe someone knows a good 1 Gbit NIC with pxe for using with openmopsix.

Yes, try to get another computer with a known and trusted nic to boot off the
openmosixterminalserver so that you get a better feeling for the
process. Then try to find the proper NIC for your main machine.  

[...]

| > Lastly, which Quantian release?  Every now and then little things need
| > adjustment, ie it may help to run portmapper which later versions do but
| > older ones don't etc pp.
| 
| I use the 0.7.9.2 - the newest.
| 
| Am I understanding this right boot the first node and the other ones only
| with pxe or etherboot or doe I have to install something on the other nodes?

The clusterKnoppix site has a an old but still valid tutorial on
terminalserver booting with openmosix that I find very helpful.

Good luck, Dirk

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