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Subject: Re: [openMosix-general] what is required in the filesystem for
From: "Matt Rechenburg" <matteverywhere () googlemail ! com>
Date: 2006-06-22 10:41:18
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Cool stuff !! Many thanks
Matt
On 6/22/06, Etienne Bagnoud <tchetch@i-james.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:23:29 -0600
> "Daniel Petersen" <samuraidanieru@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to put together a small initrd image that I can pass to
> network
> > clients along with an openmosix kernel via PXE. What at a minimum does
> an
> > openmosix kernel need in the filesystem to be able to work? My
> knowledge is
> > such that I can't build my own filesystem from scratch, so I'm trying to
> use
> > some pre-existing initrd templates and then put the needed components
> into
> > the filesystem. My objective is to use a dozen or so diskless computers
> > that I can boot on the network to be contributing openmosix nodes. My
> > understanding from the documentation is that the userland tools need to
> be
> > installed in order for the openmosix kernel to work, but I couldn't find
> > anything that spelled out what was required and what was optional.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Daniel Petersen
>
> Hello,
> I've been working on a solution that use Windows station as openMosix
> nodes. For that solution, I've build a root filesystem that can be shared
> through NFS. So the root filesystem is shared to all the nodes (read-only
> share) and at boot time it set up Ram Disk Device to store some files and
> directory that must be writable (directory /var, /tmp, /home, /root and some
> /etc/ files).
> If you think that it can be useful for you, you can download this root
> filesystem from sourceforge (omrootfs.tar.bz2, 86 Mo). It's a Debian
> distribution, so you can use tools from Debian like apt-get. Unfortunately,
> there's no good documentation, but I'm ready to release a "good"
> documentation during the next week (now it's in the second reading phase).
> You can find that root filesystem here :
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/comosix/.
>
> T.
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Cool stuff !! Many thanks<br>
<br>
Matt<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/22/06, <b \
class="gmail_sendername">Etienne Bagnoud</b> <<a \
href="mailto:tchetch@i-james.com">tchetch@i-james.com</a>> \
wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, \
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 \
13:23:29 -0600<br>"Daniel Petersen" <<a \
href="mailto:samuraidanieru@gmail.com">samuraidanieru@gmail.com</a>> \
wrote:<br><br>> Hello,<br>> I'm trying to put together a small initrd image \
that I can pass to network <br>> clients along with an openmosix kernel via \
PXE. What at a minimum does an<br>> openmosix kernel need in the \
filesystem to be able to work? My knowledge is<br>> such that I can't \
build my own filesystem from scratch, so I'm trying to use <br>> some pre-existing \
initrd templates and then put the needed components into<br>> the \
filesystem. My objective is to use a dozen or so diskless \
computers<br>> that I can boot on the network to be contributing openmosix \
nodes. My <br>> understanding from the documentation is that the \
userland tools need to be<br>> installed in order for the openmosix kernel to \
work, but I couldn't find<br>> anything that spelled out what was required and \
what was optional. <br>><br>> Any help would be greatly \
appreciated.<br>><br>> Regards,<br>> Daniel Petersen<br><br>Hello,<br>I've \
been working on a solution that use Windows station as openMosix nodes. For that \
solution, I've build a root filesystem that can be shared through NFS. So the root \
filesystem is shared to all the nodes (read-only share) and at boot time it set up \
Ram Disk Device to store some files and directory that must be writable (directory \
/var, /tmp, /home, /root and some /etc/ files).<br>If you think that it can be
useful for you, you can download this root filesystem from sourceforge
(omrootfs.tar.bz2, 86 Mo). It's a Debian distribution, so you can use
tools from Debian like apt-get. Unfortunately, there's no good
documentation, but I'm ready to release a "good" documentation during
the next week (now it's in the second reading phase).<br>You can find that root \
filesystem here : <a \
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/comosix/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/comosix/</a>.<br><br>T.<br><br>All \
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