Cobbler Community.
I am currently working on an independent study to bring up a cluster
every night and tear it down before the labs re-open in the morning.
Here is a quick run down.
The labs have PXE boot as the first option as the motherboard because
the students use it to select which OS they need to use.
The lab has 80 computers 40 on each subnet.
Two head nodes one for each subnet.
It would be nice to use cobble in conjunction with a distributed file
system. Then each computer would boot via PXE on started, install the
OS and store the files on a distributed file system. Then after the
initial install sequence there would be no more boot time other than
booting from the distributed file system. We are currently try Rocks
clusters and its giving us more headaches then if we just rolled our
own distro. The only requirement is that we run condor.
Regards,
Ron Valente
