Jon Tegner wrote:
Tony Travis wrote:
I also prefer Debian-based distro's and still run the openMosix kernel
under an Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS server installation on our Beowulf cluster.
What I like about APT (the Debian package manager) is the dependency
checking and conflict resolution capabilities of "aptitude", which is
more robust than the older "apt-get". I previously ran Red Hat 5.3->9
and I've used both "up2date" and "yum". Neither of these is as capable
of resolving package conflicts and dependencies as APT. I used APT for
RPM when I ran RH9 for exactly this reason.
In my opinion, the package management system is a very important
factor to take into account when choosing a distribution, as well as
the range of tried and tested binary packages that are available. In
that respect, Debian/Ubuntu has a lot to recommend it.
Tony.
Hi,
regarding ubuntu, has anyone tried their adoption of kickstart?
Hello, Jon.
I just PXE boot an NFSROOT linux-2.4.26-om1 kernel on the nodes, and use
UNFS3 with ClusterNFS enabled to share the root filesystem of one of the
servers with the nodes.
Best wishes,
Tony.
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