[Beowulf] Re: ECC support on motherboards?

Matt Lawrence matt at technoronin.com
Tue May 20 22:02:14 PDT 2008


On Tue, 20 May 2008, Joe Landman wrote:

>
>
> Robert G. Brown wrote:
>
>> Very interesting article, but 1 GB is still a bit tight.  The really
>> interesting times coming are in one year, when the motherboards comes
>> with linux in 2 or even 4 GB flash.  In one GB you can load a
>
> ... and until then we use CF->SATA converters and boot from 4 GB flash 
> cards.  We have built working 4GB flash images of Ubuntu, Suse, Openfiler, 
> and one of the RHELs.

Actually, I use CF->IDE adapters.  About $5 each.  Incredibly useful to 
get Linux booted far enough to understand LVM & RAID.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.



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