Re: initial setup for newbies

Hello all!

My name is Dmitry Soloviov and I'm newbie to OpenSSI. And, like a thread
starter, got a lot of problems.
First I tried install OSSI 1.9.6 on my favorite Lenny in VirtualBox VM.
I've done steps 1-17 from this paper:
http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-lenny-preview/
On a last step I've receive a error "mkinitrd failed". Without any error
description. I've repeat fresh install of Lenny and OpenSSI and nothing
changed.

Then I tried to install old Sarge (r7) and OpenSSI v1. My sources.list
file looks like
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian sarge main contrib
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian-volatile/
sarge/volatile main contrib
security updates commented out
in installation process.

After installing a minimal system, I tried
# echo "deb http://deb.openssi.org/openssi-v1/ ./"
>> /etc/apt/sources.list
modify apt preferences
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
# apt-get install openssi

I answered to all of questions and program said that's all good. But
after reboot new kernel not loading. Grub unpacking the kernel image and
freezes. Kernel dead.
I repeat all steps in fresh system, install kernel-patch-2.4-ipvs and
run kernel with this parameters:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2199.ntpl-ssi-686-smp devfs=mount
root=/dev/hda1 ro
Nothing changed. Kernel looks like dead or infinitely waiting for
somewhat.

I doubt about this situation. Where is my mistake? Can I install more
new release and where in root deb.openssi.org I can found it?
What OS would be preferable? Maybe I need to move to Fedora Core?
I'm VERY interesting in SSI clustering. I have 5 machines in special 1G
private network. They used independent and this is not comfortable.

Thanks in advance,
Dmitry.


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