From owner-freebsd-cluster Thu Dec 12 7:59:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 516FD37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:59:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23FF43EA9 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:59:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from ccs.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (8.12.3/8.12.3/(ccn-5)) with SMTP id gBCFxj9i026218 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 08:59:45 -0700 Received: (qmail 27012 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2002 08:59:44 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO carotid.ccs.lanl.gov) (128.165.148.162) by 128.165.148.1 with SMTP; 12 Dec 2002 08:59:44 -0700 Received: (qmail 17505 invoked by uid 3499); 12 Dec 2002 08:59:44 -0700 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Dec 2002 08:59:44 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 08:59:44 -0700 (MST) From: "Ronald G. Minnich" X-X-Sender: rminnich@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov To: Andy Sporner Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster In-Reply-To: <3DF861DF.9000704@nentec.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Andy Sporner wrote: > I think this is called PXE. Pre-XEcution boot environment from Intel. > When you select Network Boot, it hits a DHCP server for an IP address > and then a PXE server for a floppy image. Then it kicks off the image > just like a FD. The systems I've used have a 32KB limit. So you use PXE to boot the thing that boots the thing. It's stupid. Also can't boot over things it doesn't know, e.g. myrinet. We boot over myrinet. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message