Yet Another Beowulf Installation Howto

Beowulf Installation -- Nodes

Lets try to make one poor-man's .rpm for the kernel. I am following the instructions from KickStart Howto.

• configured kernel for the node (the most important thing is the serial console stuff).
• the new kernel is /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-node
• cp the linux source to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linux.tar.gz
• create spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-node.spec

  -------------------------------------------------
  Summary: Linux 2.2.5 kernel with serial console
  Name: linux
  Version: 2.2.5
  Release: 1
  Copyright: GPL
  Group: Beowulf/Node
  Source: linux.tar.gz
  %description
  Kernel for cluster node
  
  %post
  perl -spi -e 's!image=/boot/vmlinuz-.*!image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-node!' /etc/lilo.conf
  lilo
  
  
  %files
  /lib/modules/2.2.5
  /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-node
  -------------------------------------------------    
  

• create the rpm itself: from SPEC directory:

  # rpm -ba kernel-node.spec 
  

• now copy the rpm to the public ftp directory (from where it will be installed):

  # cp -f /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/linux-2.2.5-1.i386.rpm /home/ftp/pub/linux-2.2.5-1
  .i386.rpm