I'm suprised no-one has mentioned nfsroot to-date. Based on its docs,
it could do this quite well. But tryin to understand the docs is hell,
and getting it to work even worse, especially when I got no response
to my probs f/the maintainer.
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Marcelo E. Magallón wrote:
>
> PPS: Since neither RH nor Debian actually have anything built-in for this
> task, Debian is still a better choice: several times ppl in the
> developer's list have expressed interest in further developing Deity into
> this direction. I know this doesn't buy you anyth
Hi all,
Except cfengine there is another hopefully better because debian specific
solution I discovered recently installing hamm. I mean
# dpkg --root=/another_machine_root_dir
Think about the great possibilities it gives! Let's assume
# mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/DebianFarm
# for i in $FarmMachine
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
> The powers-that-be around here have almost decided to scrap Slowaris x86
> for the 200 machine PPro compouter farm, and go with Linux... I need to
> convince them to use Debian and not RH. They want to be able to
> configure 1 machine and mirror the setup t
>you wouldn'tr want to share /etc tho...because then that shares
>everything...which isn't always good
>(wouldn't want them all to have the same IP adress)
>tho you could mount a shared version of etc and have the shared configs
>be sym links to the shared mounted version
>but..
something along t
That shouldn't be hard
Have you though tof using 1 or 2 computers as fileservers?
After a quick read of teh FHS (filesystem standard)
the setup is made to allow the shareing of large parts of the filesystem
between
computers.
Then anytime you add a program to the system (usually in /usr/bin etc
Behan Webster wrote:
>
> Lindsay Allen wrote:
> >
> > Tim,
> >
> > IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task.
> >
>
> If I may, he advocated it because we used it here at Verisim to manage
> our workstations and servers. Unfortunately we found although it did
> work, it was rather
Lindsay Allen wrote:
>
> Tim,
>
> IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task.
>
If I may, he advocated it because we used it here at Verisim to manage
our workstations and servers. Unfortunately we found although it did
work, it was rather clumsy, and didn't scale well in our enviro
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
> Craig Sanders wrote:
> >
> > isn't this sort of thing precisely what cfengine is for? cfengine is
> > available as a debian package.
>
> Doh! I knew there was something out there to do this. That's why I asked
> the list. Looks like my brain is full.. wh
But I would suggest reading the article anyway. If RedHat makes it "easy"
to install on many machines, the group in the article did NOT use such a
solution. Instead, they spent time writing some scripts and setting up
a generic hdd that they sent to their hardware vendor. The scripts were
design
Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
>
> > I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed
> > the thread..
> >
> > On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in
> > adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the
Tim,
IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task.
HTH
Lindsay
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On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
> I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed
> the thread..
>
> On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in
> adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the resultant
> changes reflected on the
If they are all pretty similar configs, then it sounds like a very easy
solution is to use rdist or rsync.
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
> I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed
> the thread..
>
> On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machi
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> > Tim, from my experiences with (much smaller scale but still essentially
> > the same) mass-duplication of debian, all you need to do is duplicate the
> > hard disk and change half a dozen (or less) file
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> Tim, from my experiences with (much smaller scale but still essentially
> the same) mass-duplication of debian, all you need to do is duplicate the
> hard disk and change half a dozen (or less) files under /etc:
>
> /etc/hostname
> /etc/
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
> The powers-that-be around here have almost decided to scrap Slowaris
> x86 for the 200 machine PPro compouter farm, and go with Linux... I
> need to convince them to use Debian and not RH. They want to be able
> to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
>
> > Stephen Carpenter wrote:
>
> > > hmmm just a slightly evil thought
> > > anyone tried
> > > cat /dev/hda1 > /dev/hdb1
> > > assuming hda1 and hdb1 are similar partition sizes and types
>
> > Trie
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
> Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to
> > each
.
.
.
>
> > hmmm just a slightly evil thought
> > anyone tried
> > cat /dev/hda1 > /dev
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
> Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> > hmmm just a slightly evil thought
> > anyone tried
> > cat /dev/hda1 > /dev/hdb1
> > assuming hda1 and hdb1 are similar partition sizes and types
> Tried it... doesnt work.
The correct answer is "dd if=/dev/hda1 of=hd
> All that would work if you wanted to take the machines offline to
> do that, but these machines are going to be handling 30MB/min of
> streaming data for 6 months at a clip. There's no way that would work. :(
>
> > hmmm just a slightly evil thought
> > anyone tried
> > cat /dev/hda1 > /dev/h
Hunter H Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tim Sailer wrote:
> >
> > They want to be able
> > to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine
>
> See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be
> of help. The article concerned the use of 160
> Alpha Linux boxes for graphics
Stephen Carpenter wrote:
>
> Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to
> each
> >machine in the farm, without having to go to each of the remaining 199
> and configure
> >it by hand. Someone told them that RH made this easy, and no
Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to
each
>machine in the farm, without having to go to each of the remaining 199
and configure
>it by hand. Someone told them that RH made this easy, and no other
>dist could do it!
Well...there a
Behan Webster wrote:
>
> Hunter H Marshall wrote:
> >
> > Tim Sailer wrote:
> > >
> > > They want to be able
> > > to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine
> >
> > See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be
> > of help. The article concerned the use of 160
> > Alpha Linu
Hunter H Marshall wrote:
>
> Tim Sailer wrote:
> >
> > They want to be able
> > to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine
>
> See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be
> of help. The article concerned the use of 160
> Alpha Linux boxes for graphics rendering. I belive
>
Tim Sailer wrote:
>
> They want to be able
> to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine
See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be
of help. The article concerned the use of 160
Alpha Linux boxes for graphics rendering. I belive
it was the Jan '98 issue.
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