[Aurora-sparc-devel] Been away for ages and now back

[Lamar Owen]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 13:01, Matthew Swabey wrote:
> Hiya people, I am back now, especially after a shipment of about 50
> Ultra 10s that we are clustering (MOSIX anyone?).

Welcome back.  MOSIX/OpenMosix (two different projects) are pretty 
Intel-centric; while it has been a while, last time I checked SPARC wasn't a 
support arch (I wanted to do the same thing with a cluster of U30's).  Now I 
have some big beasts to play with (an E6500, and E6000, and an E5500) and 
they just blow away anything I could have done with the U30's.

> Anyhow so any FAQ update requests will be sorted out.

First FAQ entry for Build2.0Beta2: Disable Prelinking 
in /etc/sysconfig/prelink (PRELINKING=no).

Second FAQ entry would be how to upgrade via yum.  This is complex; I did it 
by upgrading from 1.92 to corona, then cross-grading to 2.0beta2.  The 
archives of last month in the aurora-sparc-user list would be the place to 
start, and there was a previous item on going from 1.92 -> corona.  Perhaps 
(and I've not tried this) the 1.92-> 2.0 is easier than 1.92->corona->2.0; I 
need to try this one (but getting a system back on 1.92 is going to be 
strange; the only box I still have at that level is mail.pari.edu, and for 
obvious reasons it's not a testbed... :-)).

> Also I have a query. Should I go for 2 Beta 2 straightaway?

Yes.  Much much much easier than 1.0-1.92-2.0.

> And if so what iso's do I need?

1-4, I believe.
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