HOWTO involves network booting diskless clients and is written in english Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
i ran my xml file through your xsl parser (guide.xsl) and it worked fine. im not sure how you want me to link my files though. thanks
tantive: could you please check if there's any mistake in it
From a first short look i encountered no mistakes. And i think i missed the part where mfs is set up (or i overlooked it). Michael: Maybe you should have a look at plumpos.sf.net which will be soon released and then be included into gentoo. Thanks for your great work!
Michael Imhof: i looked at the plumpOS stuff and couldnt get a tarball, ill just keep trying. i agree that this would probably be the best solution, my list of essential files is clunkly. mfs only gets setup automagically when you path your kernel, ill try to make that more clear. ive never written a technically document before, so any criticism would help. thanks
I will submit this to the review team for site publication once everything is sorted out.
The guide can be found here: <http://gentoo.uberdavis.com/doc/en/work/mosix-guide.xml> This is where it will be until it gets edited. If you have anymore additions to the guide, please post here. Please note that this guide may be edited for some content, grammar, etc, but we will try to keep it as original as possible.
cool, thanks zhen. everything seems to be fine except that the sample.txt link was broken at the bottom. i still cant get the plumpOS tarball, but upon investigating clumpOS/plumpOS i have found some essential differences between those systems and the howto. clumpOS/plumpOs boots mosix nodes from a cd image, whereas the howto describes the networking booting of mosix nodes. the howto is rather clunkly because there is no utility (that i know of) that simply creates an essential filesystem. so basically what im saying is that whenever plumpOS is incorporated into gentoo that will be a different section of the howto. any ideas on howto fix up the essential filesystem part of howto would be greatly appreciated. thanks, michael
Well, that is your decision. I would like to make sure that the guide is near perfect when it goes live on the site, so get it to that point and I will be glad to post it ;) IMO, this would be a great addition to our documentation...
Sorry for the delay - I would really like to get the ball rolling on this guide, as it would be something unique that we don't have. What is the status on it, and is it production-ready?
sorry zhen, it should be ready in about a week, ive been really busy these past few weeks. -mike
Created attachment 11229 [details] xml file to be parsed by guide.xsl zhen- im still having trouble trying to make this howto less messy. for instance the appendix at the end is just a list of files that are necessary for a diskless node. the best solution i can think of right now is to write some kind of an ebuild that automatically builds a minimalist file system. ive never written an ebuild before but if you think this is a good idea i can start working on it. even though this howto is not perfect i still think it would be informative to someone tring to create a diskless cluster.
alrighty, I have posted this to the review team so that they can take a look. If they come up with anything, I will keep you updated. I am mirroring the guide for editing: http://gentoo.uberdavis.com/doc/en/mosix-guide.xml cheers -
Alrighty, I was looking through the guide, and I came up with the following items that need to be fixed before it can be published: 1. Every <pre> tag needs a caption that is informative. 2. All of the # <command>s inside of the <pre> tags need to be inside of <c> tags instead of <i> tags. example <pre> <pre caption="This pre does this here"> # <c>this is a command</c> </pre> Inside of your paragraphs, each block of text that is not in a <ul>, <li> or a <pre> needs to be in its own p tag. Right now, it looks like you have an opening <p> at the beginning of the body, and it ends at the end of the body. Just make each paragraph its own <p>,</p> block please. The doc is not w3c compliant without that. Other than that, looks good! Oh, and werent should be weren't in the last paragraph. Hope to see the updated guide soon ;) Cheers, //zhen
Created attachment 11543 [details] xml file to be parsed by guide.xsl final revision before publish
Created attachment 11544 [details] xml file to be parsed by guide.xsl final revision before publish
Created attachment 11545 [details] xml file to be parsed by guide.xsl final revision before publish
zhen- i fixed all the changes in your last message and the final version has been posted. any feedback on a diskless ebuild? -michael ps. sorry about extraneous attachments i ran into some bugzilla errors and wasnt sure if they were posting or not
Sorry for the delay! I am taking a look at this guide and will expedite the review on it! I will keep you informed.
Moving, since I no longer really do docs.
Created attachment 16321 [details] New document, fixed some GuideXML constructs, nothing more Very nice-looking guide! Will be committed when the CVS is back up :)
committed. will show up online shortly.
I realized that you committed it as xml/htdocs/doc/en/openmosix-howto.xml As we have a clustering project i'd better suggest xml/htdocs/proj/en/cluster/howto_openmosix_diskless.xml as i already checked in howto_openmosix.xml in there which contains information about openmosix on a cluster of full machine (not diskless ones). Could you please move it? And maybe inform spyderous about it?
thanks for publishing this howto! something im looking into is using the pxes (net-misc/pxes) package to actually setup the thin clients. right now the list of files is kind of clunky, i think that this would be the optimal solution. thanks, michael
