Hello all I am new to the world of clustering and of course to gluster. I am trying to set up a small cluster of 4 nodes for our research group. We have installed slackware 12.0 on all the machines, including the server, and that server offers services like NIS, NFS, DNSMASQ and NTP. Our machines have different hardaware, so the partition table is different. So I would like to install gluster in order to exploit our little NAT. My question is: By using Gluster do I have to clone the server on all the nodes or am I allowed to skip the cloning step and jump to the install software step on the nodes? Thanks in advance. -- William Oquendo Physicist, National University of Colombia Master in Physics student Simulation Of Physical Systems Group Linux User # 321481 ********************* Young's Handy Guide to the Modern Sciences: If it is green or it wiggles -- it is Biology. If it stinks -- it is Chemistry. If it doesn't work -- it is Physics. Finagle's Third Law: In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake. Corollaries: 1. Nobody whom you ask for help will see it. 2. The first person who stops by, whose advice you really don't want to hear, will see it immediately. *********************