Hi Stephen,

My first thought would be to suggest using Oscar, but you ruled that 
out.  I am running a cluster with SL 4.2 and Oscar (4.2.1 and -current 
from SVN), with great success.

However, if you don't want to use it, that's fine too, but take a look 
at the oscar package, there is a file in the oscarsamples directory with 
all of the packages for RHEL4 that are deployed to th nodes during an 
oscar installation.

Be careful to not strip it down too far, as it will cause you problems 
in the long run if you are missing critical packages, and the 
installation time difference between a 2Gb and 3Gb image isn't really 
huge on Gigabit.

Stephen A. Smith wrote:

>Hi
>I'm part of a group that is setting up a Beowulf cluster (64 nodes with
>dual procs (3.2GHz Xeons) connected via myrinet) with Scientific Linux.
> I was told to strip down the base install to reduce the install size. 
>I was curious if those of the SL community that have clusters setup
>could please email me the rpm -qa output from a slave node.  Also,
>while I've heard of people using OSCAR and the other tools available
>with SL (with good results) I've been told that we will be using an
>in-house cluster-imaging tool.  
>Thanks
>Stephen
>
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