On Thu, 11 May 2006, Miles O'Neal wrote:

> Adrian Sevcenco said...
> |
> |Hi! I ask again with the hope that i will find an afirmative answer.
> |I have a rack with 30 nodes for a AliEn cluster. Do i have an easy way
> |to install SL on them ?
> 
> We use Kickstart CDROMs.  Plug the node into the network,
> stick the CDROM in th edrive, power up or reboot, and
> away it goes.  Our kickstart process installs a post-config
> file that runs after the system reboots after the install.
> There's some stuff we do even later; the post-config's
> last act is to drop another file in /tmp; when teh system
> reboots again, we log in, run this providing the nodename,
> and we're done.  If we used DHCP we wouldn't need that last
> step.
> 
> But it's all very easy.  Some day we need to look into the
> SL site stuff; I suspect it would simplify even this.
> 

When you are ready let me know and I will help you make a site.

-Connie Sieh