Re: what is required in the filesystem for openmosix kernel to work?

Cool stuff !! Many thanks

Matt

On 6/22/06, Etienne Bagnoud <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:23:29 -0600
> "Daniel Petersen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to put together a small initrd image that I can pass to
> network
> > clients along with an openmosix kernel via PXE.   What at a minimum does
> an
> > openmosix kernel need in the filesystem to be able to work?  My
> knowledge is
> > such that I can't build my own filesystem from scratch, so I'm trying to
> use
> > some pre-existing initrd templates and then put the needed components
> into
> > the filesystem.  My objective is to use a dozen or so diskless computers
> > that I can boot on the network to be contributing openmosix nodes.  My
> > understanding from the documentation is that the userland tools need to
> be
> > installed in order for the openmosix kernel to work, but I couldn't find
> > anything that spelled out what was required and what was optional.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Daniel Petersen
>
> Hello,
> I've been working on a solution that use Windows station as openMosix
> nodes. For that solution, I've build a root filesystem that can be shared
> through NFS. So the root filesystem is shared to all the nodes (read-only
> share) and at boot time it set up Ram Disk Device to store some files and
> directory that must be writable (directory /var, /tmp, /home, /root and some
> /etc/ files).
> If you think that it can be useful for you, you can download this root
> filesystem from sourceforge (omrootfs.tar.bz2, 86 Mo). It's a Debian
> distribution, so you can use tools from Debian like apt-get. Unfortunately,
> there's no good documentation, but I'm ready to release a "good"
> documentation during the next week (now it's in the second reading phase).
> You can find that root filesystem here :
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/comosix/.
>
> T.
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