Yea, we already thought of that. However, the disks in this cluster are front-panel removeable, however they are not back-plan connected thus require the top of each system to be opened. These are 9-foot racks and very difficult to work with. FYI: Don't ever buy a cluster from Western Scientific, it is the biggest piece of crap I have ever seen. Extremelly poor physical design.
The rescue disk option is doable, what exactly do you do with the rescue floppy? Thanks, CC > > On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, RedHat List wrote: > > > Do you use any special options when using 6.5? Is LILO installed in the > > MBR on your systems? What method do you use to create your image? (Image > > All, Image Disk, etc...) > > Heh, good questions - I'm the server guy, not the lab guy. However, I think > they just image the disk as all the machines are exactly alike, then just go > in afterwards and change the machine name. > > I've tried ghosts of both lilo and grub'd machines, and while the image > restores fine, the bootsector just doesn't work, requiring a rescue disk > bootup. > > All else fails, if your machines are using a single disk, you could pull the > disks from the target machines, toss them in the master system, boot from > floppy (with dd on it) and dd drive1 -> drive2 > > Won't be the fastest, but should work, as dd does a bit copy. I do that all > the time to make backups of my special floppies (network boot, cdboot etc). > > -- > > Sapere aude > My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely. > Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
