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K12LTSP + MOSIX Howto

Posted by Hemos on from the bigger-better-faster-and-cheaper dept.

Paul Nelson writes "Richard Camp posted a very complete, step by step guide to building a MOSIX cluster. "...The objective of this howto is to guide the reader on setting up a Mosix cluster with diskless nodes. The setup is based on K12ltsp Project. This should provide an easily scalable system."

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  1. We've got a similar project... by bhsx · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Mandrake Mosix Terminal Project is extremely similar and is based on the k12ltsp concept. Check it out if you can. K12ltsp is great for rolling-out massive amounts of LTSP servers quickly.

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  2. Re:PXE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That's no sweat at all. 640kB is plenty. Etherboot runs in 48kB all up. PXE loaders are limited to 32kB but they make calls to the extension BIOS to get network services, whereas Etherboot has the NIC driver built in.

    And you still don't get the point about the boot loader being able to load into extended memory directly. Etherboot loads bzImages and initrds. People have pumped down huge ramdisks hundreds of MBs big. Believe me, real mode is no obstacle to writing into extended memory.