[Beowulf] pxe boot an arbitrary distro from a CD drive on the headnode?

[David Mathog]

rolf at anythinglinux.org wrote:

> David - Your best bet is to use ClusterKnoppix - a hacked version of 
> knoppix which allows for a full openMosix cluster via PXE. This will do 
> what you need, keep in mind that it does nfs mount the cdrom drive, 
> which will take a while for programs to load. If you're interest I can 
> write a howto on what needs to be done after the master(with the cd-rom) 

But I don't want to boot ClusterKnoppix on the headnode - it's still
busy running the rest of the cluster.  I only want to boot the
CDROM contents on the one failed node.  Possible???

Thanks,

David Mathog
mathog at caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech