Status of Fly

I was trying to figure out how to do this cross-PXE kickstart thing, because the nodes in rack 1 of the cluster don’t have CD-ROM drives. You can cross-kickstart in ROCKS, but not with PXE; you have to actually go to each node and boot it with its appropriate boot CD. I searched the web and found a post on the subject by Brandon Davidson, a (the?) Systems Administrator for the University of Oregon Neuroinformatics Center. I emailed him and asked him if he had gotten it working. He emailed me back saying that he was going to make a virtual instance of ROCKS 5.1 and make me a new base roll…. and a few days later, he had the .iso up for me to test. I haven’t tested it yet, but he did, and I have high hopes that it will work. Thanks Brandon!

This entry was posted on February 9, 2009 at 2:15 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.