Re: Non-network install

["Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG)" <argathin gmx net>]

On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 09:28:26AM -0500, Mark A. Zottola wrote:
 
> I am working with a high school in the area who wants to build a Beowulf
> cluster,
[...]
> However, the cluster is to be built on 9 donated P90 machines, 8 of
> which have 16 MB RAM, 540 MB disk space and NO CD-ROM. The ninth has 32
> MB memory, a CD-ROM and a full RH6.0 install (I will prune it later).
[...]

As you intend to build a cluster, I assume all machines have NICs and
are connected to each other in one way or the other, right? I'll also
assume you've got a RHL 6.0 CD handy.
In that case, you should be able to do what I did recently: An NFS
install. To do so, I had the RHL 6.0 CD in the CD-ROM of my main machine,
had it mounted to /mnt/cdrom and made sure that /mnt/cdrom gets exported
to the machine I want to do the install on (edit /etc/export and restart
nfsd). I then went ahead to run the install floppy on the target machine
(make sure you use the bootnet.img to make that floppy, RHL 6.0 has two
images, one for ordinary installs and one for net) and chose NFS
install. The install program then asked me for all the details about the
network card, IP adresses involved, host names etc. and I basically told
it to use my main machine as server and get the CD information from
there - which it happily did. The rest of the installation went as with
the ordinary CD installation.

In your case, the "main" machine would also be the one with the CD-ROM
(obviously...) and you should then be able to install from there.

HTH,

Thomas
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