Preview alpha quality OpenSSI on Ubuntu Hardy Heron!

Howto:

   1. Install Hardy Heron.  I used the server version.  To simplify
      things install as little as possibe (i.e. nothing other than the
      base system).

   2. By default Hardy uses the relatime option for the root filesystem,
      unfortunately our old mount doesn't understand that, so edit the
      /etc/fstab to remove the option.

      s/relatime/defaults/
          


   3. Add

      deb http://www.atlantech.com/~john/openssi-etch ./
      deb http://www.atlantech.com/~john/openssi-hardy-extras ./
          

      to your sources.list

   4. Add

      Package: *
      Pin: origin www.atlantech.com
      Pin-Priority: 1000
          

      to your /etc/apt/preferences

   5. Create a file /etc/apt/apt-conf.d/90allow-unauthenticated containing:

      APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true";
          

   6.

      apt-get update

   7.

      apt-get remove nfs-common

   8.

      apt-get install openbsd-inetd
          

   9.

      apt-get install initrd-tools

  10. Add the module for your cluster-interconnect nic to
      /etc/mkinitrd/modules

  11. As we're going to remove the running kernel we must modprobe all
      modules needed to build the initrd or we won't be able to make a
      bootable system (*don't forget this or you'll be stuck with an
      unbootable system*):

      modprobe loop
      modprobe ext2

  12. apt-get dist-upgrade

      At this point you will be warned that the running kernel will be
      removed.  This is because of a necessary downgrade of udev.  Allow
      it to happen.

      :-(  Warning - your system is unbootable starting from this point.

      You will get some errors at this stage, probably:

      Selecting previously deselected package sysvinit-utils.
      (Reading database ... 14933 files and directories currently installed.)
      Unpacking sysvinit-utils (from .../sysvinit-utils_2.86.ds1-38.ssi2_i386.deb) ...
      dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sysvinit-utils_2.86.ds1-38.ssi2_i386.deb (--unpack):
       trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man8/pidof.8.gz', which is also in package sysvutils
      Errors were encountered while processing:
       /var/cache/apt/archives/sysvinit-utils_2.86.ds1-38.ssi2_i386.deb
      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


      Just install the packages with a force-overwrite

      # dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/sysvinit-utils_2.86.ds1-38.ssi2_i386.deb
      Unpacking sysvinit-utils (from .../sysvinit-utils_2.86.ds1-38.ssi2_i386.deb) ...
      dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
       trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man8/pidof.8.gz', which is also in package sysvutils
      ...
      dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
       trying to overwrite `/bin/pidof', which is also in package sysvutils
      Setting up sysvinit-utils (2.86.ds1-38.ssi2) ...
          

      Then retry the dist-upgrade and carry on until it's all upgraded.

      # apt-get dist-upgrade
      ...
      dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+ssi1_i386.deb (--unpack):
       trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1.gz', which is also in package uuid-runtime
      dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
      Errors were encountered while processing:
       /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+ssi1_i386.deb
      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
      # dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+ssi1_i386.deb
      ...
      dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
       trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1.gz', which is also in package uuid-runtime
      ...
      # apt-get dist-upgrade

          

  13. Hardy has tmpfs filesystems installed on /var/lock and /var/run
      which will screw up the cluster creation scripts, so we have to
      get rid of them.  For /var/lock that's easy:

      # umount /var/lock
      # umount /var/lock
      # umount /var/lock
      umount: /var/lock: not mounted
          

      Watch out - there may be mutiple /var/lock's mounted in the same
      place, keep retrying until it tells you that it's not mounted.

      For /var/run it's harder as it's in use:

      # umount /var/run
      umount: /var/run: device is busy
      umount: /var/run: device is busy

          

      A "mount --move" can be used to get around this:

      # mkdir /tmp/zz-run
      # mount --move /var/run /tmp/zz-run
      # umount /var/run
      # umount /var/run
      umount: /var/run: not mounted
          

      As with /var/lock there may be many stacked mounts.

  14. apt-get install openssi

      configure the node number, cluster interconnect, clustername, root
      failover as usual.

  15. :-)       Your system should now be rebootable.  Reboot it.

And now the fun begins...

This is as far as I have got for the moment,  I need a rest.

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