Re: build kernel for server farm
Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:27:33 -0200
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 ;)
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vda
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