Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert G. Brown wrote: > >> Very interesting article, but 1 GB is still a bit tight. The really >> interesting times coming are in one year, when the motherboards comes >> with linux in 2 or even 4 GB flash. In one GB you can load a > > ... and until then we use CF->SATA converters and boot from 4 GB flash > cards. We have built working 4GB flash images of Ubuntu, Suse, > Openfiler, and one of the RHELs. > > Mind you, creating such a thing is a non-trivial exercise, especially > for RHEL and RHEL like systems.
It isn't so bad building a flash image for something like this. If you want to play with it a bit primitively, you can install to a flash card or a virtual disk configured to have the exact same layout, and you can mass install to new ones by dd'ing a file system image. I generally prefer to just bulk install boxes by PXE booting them though -- less handwork. That requires a bit more work, but any SA worth his salt knows how to do that sort of thing. Kickstart and similar tools have taken a lot of the pain out of doing mass installs, of course. It doesn't matter much if your boot media are hard drives or 4G flash cards -- it is pretty much the same, you just need to make sure you're not cramming too much stuff into the root file system. Hell, 4G used to be a pretty big hard drive, you don't even have to cram things in too badly if you're running some sort of Unix-alike... -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
