[TriLUG] IBM BladeCenter and Linux

[John Turner]

One thing I should note is that none of the blades have local disks 
everything is on the SAN.

Anyone have some links to setting up a linux cluster with a shared OS 
install?

John

On Jan 28, 2005, at 4:41 PM, Steve Hoffman wrote:

> Actually yes...I've done it several ways.  PXE booting was probably
> the easiest...but the pain factor of setting up a PXE boot machine can
> be pretty brutal.  Another way we installed was with DD...install your
> OS to your liking on one machine then with a linux boot disk, boot to
> rescue mode and dd the good install (again and again and again...).
> That was nice but pulling a machine and removing the HD over and over
> was tedius.  The best way is probably NFS installs with KickStart!
>
> The only caveat was hostname/IP addresses needed to be changed, but
> minor considering the time you could have spend doing it one at a
> time!  I think when I was at my peak I could build an entire chassis
> in about 2-3 hours (including re-configuration).
>
> HTH
> Steve
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:53:58 -0500, John Turner <jdturner at nc.rr.com> 
> wrote:
>> So anyone setup a BladeCenter (14 nodes) with Linux?  Did you do any
>> kind of OS imaging or shared booting?  Or did you just have individual
>> OS installs?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
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