Node cloning

[Richard C Ferri]

Hi all,
     I don't want to turn the beowulf group into the 'how best to clone
nodes' group, but before I started moving hardware around to clone a node,
I'd take a look at rsync: http://rsync.samba.org/.

my two cents, Rich

Oscar Roberto López Bonilla <olopez at faro.ens.uabc.mx>@beowulf.org on
04/05/2001 10:35:46 AM

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To:   Luca Frediani <luca at giasone.dcci.unipi.it>
cc:   beowulf at beowulf.org
Subject:  Re: Node cloning



Hi Luca

I cloned 26 hard disk to setup our cluster

I didn't use the method described in the book "How to build a beowulf - A
guide to the implementation and application of PC clusters" (authors:
Sterling, Salmon, Becker, Savarese  Ed. MIT Press)
Basically because I don't have any floppy drive or CDROM drive on all those
nodes (except for the gateway)
So what I did was:
Configure ONE slave node
Install the configured hard drive on /dev/hda
Install three hard drives on hdb, hdc, and hdd
And then use the command (this will take long, so you can do it overnight)
         cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb ; cp /dev/hda /dev/hdc ; cp /dev/hda /dev/hdd

After that you can turn off the computer, install all the hard drive on
different machines, CHANGE the names and IP's and that's it



At 08:05 PM 4/4/01 +0200, you wrote:
>I am currently setting up a beowulf cluster and now I am trying to clone
>the nodes of my cluster. I succeded to install the bootp on the wordly
>node and to compile a kernel with nfsroot capabilities for the client.
>The clone root file system is set as stated in the book "How to build a
>beowulf - A guide to the implementation and application of PC clusters"
>(authors: Sterling, Salmon, Becker, Savarese  Ed. MIT Press).
>
>Now my goal is to set up an init process that partition the local hard
>drive and put the partition images on it. I did not find anything useful
>about it. Can anyone tell me how to do it or where can I find useful
>information?
>
>Thank You
>
>Luca Frediani
>
>
>
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