On 25 Oct 2008, at 5:01 am, Matt Lawrence wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Alan Ward wrote:
Perhaps an alternative way to go for a cluster install disk would
be a bog standard Debian/Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu boot iso image,
with a customized install script that pulls in a suplementary set
of packages over the network and does some extra configuration (NFS
server, PXE server etc).
Close. I recommend a very short and simple script that installs a
configuration management system such as Puppet, cfengine or bcfg2
and then those do all the other work. Once the infrastructure is
set up, it is very easy to do with CentOS and kickstart.
Yep, that's what we do. We actually use the same Debian FAI
installation infrastructure for everything; compute nodes, head nodes,
desktops, database servers (except Oracle), you name it. cfengine
takes care of tweaking the configuration and installed packages to the
actual purpose of the machine.
Tim
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