If you meet the criteria listed below and are very brave, you can try
to install your cluster using the brief, mysterious, cryptic, terse,
and obscure documentation in this section. Only those users who meet
and understand all of the following criteria should attempt to use
this ``Quick Start'' installation guide:
- You hate to read manuals, documentation, or other printed
matter.
- You are a UNIX guru (you can use netcfg or an editor to
configure network interfaces).
- Your cluster client nodes are on a private subnet.
- Your cluster server node has two network interfaces: one public,
and one connected to the cluster client machines.
- The default RPM list supplied by OSCAR for your distribution
(oscar-2.0b1/oscarsamples/<distro>-<version>-<arch>.rpmlist)
is acceptable for your client nodes.
- You are using a distribution that is listed as Fully
supported in Table 1.
- You know how to install your chosen distribution on a node.
- You've never read completely through the installation
instructions of anything, ever.
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Table 1:
OSCAR supported distributions
Distribution and Release |
Status |
RedHat 7.1 |
Expermientally supported |
RedHat 7.2 |
Fully supported |
RedHat 7.3 |
Fully supported |
Mandrake 8.2 |
Fully supported |
|
If you decide that the quick install isn't for you, see the detailed
installation instructions in Section 7
(page
). Throughout the quick install
instructions, there are references to the appropriate section in the
detailed installation instructions in parentheses at the end of each
step.
If you run into unexpected problems during the install, see the
detailed installation instructions or visit the OSCAR web site where
up-to-date, post-release information is maintained.
root
2002-11-08