Universität zu Köln

Lange, Thomas, Rühmkorf, Jens and Gärtner, Mattias (1999). The fully automatic installation of a Linux cluster. Working Paper.

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Abstract

We present a non interactive system, called FAI (Fully Automatic Installation), to install a Debian Linux operating system on a PC cluster. We take one or more virgin PCs, turn on the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed, configured and running on the whole cluster, without any interaction necessary. In addition, the configuration can be changed automatically on all Linux cluster nodes. Thus we have a scalable method for installing and updating a cluster with little effort involved. We use the Debian distribution and a collection of shell- and Perl-scripts for the installation process. Changes to the configuration files of the operating system are made by the tool cfengine.

Item Type:	Preprints, Working Papers or Reports (Working Paper)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Lange, Thomas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Rühmkorf, Jens UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Gärtner, Mattias UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-548529
Date:	1999
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Computer Science > Institute of Computer Science
Subjects:	Data processing Computer science
Refereed:	No
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/54852