Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: build kernel for server farm | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:27:33 -0200 |
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On 6 November 2002 20:00, Matt Simonsen wrote: > I am pretty familiar with the build process and kernel install for a > single Linux box, but I wanted to confirm I'm doing things in a sane > way for a large deployment. All the machines are the same hardware > and running standard setups. > > First, I plan on compiling the kernel on a development box. From > there my plan is basically tar /usr/src/linux, copy to each box, > untar, copy bzImage and System.map to /boot, run make > modules_install, edit lilo.conf, run lilo. > > Tips? Comments?
You can avoid kernel version/config madness if you will arrange your farm to boot from single TFTP server and keep small readonly root fs with /boot/*, /lib/modules/* etc on the NFS server (TFTP and NFS servers can be the same box).
You might want to have spare boot server, just in case ;) -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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