Debian (lenny)
why? centos is generally considered the safest choice,
unless you're religiously committed to debian.
Almost religiously. I have found it a very stable platform for
everything up to clusters.
OK. you should know that the stability comes from linux itself
and the underlying user-level packages, which have nothing to do
with the distro (any of them).
I believe fai can do a variety of install-types, including diskful,
and nfs root. But then, I am still in the planning stage, and have no
practical experience.
well, the thing about nfs root is that there's almost no installation,
per se. if you wanted, you could boot the nodes off a live master's
root filesystem. normally, master and node images are kept mostly
separate, though, because it's handy to avoid entangling them
(ie, you may not want mysql-server installed on compute nodes, but
only on the master, etc. or just different versions.)
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