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List:       npaci-rocks-discussion
Subject:    Re: [Rocks-Discuss]Dual-Boot Windows and Rocks-OS in all master and
From:       Joe Landman <landman () scalableinformatics ! com>
Date:       2004-09-30 12:52:52
Message-ID: 415C01A4.9080608 () scalableinformatics ! com
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Hi Rajiv:

  This is very very custom.  In short, you would need to have a 
preserved partition on you compute nodes that was not erased upon 
re-install, a way to manipulate the /etc/grub.conf and the boot process, 
and a few other tools.

  I might suggest an alternative than the dual boot approach:  Us VMWare 
if possible.  This way, you could simply install the VMWare RPM, and 
copy your VM to each machine as part of the node install.  Or use a 
fixed partition which remains untouched by ROCKS to write your VMdisk 
into.  This would be far simpler than the dual boot compute nodes.

  Note: if you really want to do this sort of stuff, please contact me 
offline.  I have some very non-ROCKified methods that could help.

Joe

Rajiv wrote:

> Dear All,
>     How to do custom installation in ROCKS. I would like to have 
> Windows-XP and ROCKS OS (Dual Boot) in my master and all my clients.
>  
> Regards,
> Rajiv


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