Last week, Mandriva released the 2009 version, because I'm a mandriva fan, immediately I downloaded the One- KDE ISO, burn it and installed in my old HP laptop ( PIII 1 Ghz , 256 Mb RAM, 20 Gb HD , Wi - fi card). The LiveCD run perfectly, show me the new KDE 4 desktop and made a clean install without problems (many others Linux LiveCD have problems just to boot in old hardware like this). I like to use a different partition for the /home, so my partition table looks like: / 5GB swap - 512 MB / geexbox - 100MB /home - rest Yes, I want to install the GeeXBoX , it's great for watch movies. Some good points are the new design, fast boot, the best hardware detection and many friendly menus to configure all. Remarkable is the improved URPMI , it is fast, now support simultaneous package download and the best part is the --auto-orphans option, this check for unused or broken packages and suggest uninstall , cleaning the systems even the kernel, removing unused drivers or m...
In this part we'll install and configure the other nodes, in the master node we have a DHCP server and a PXE network boot which serves the netboot system, so we just need to connect the net cable, a keyboard and a monitor to the node, turn on and wait to install the base system. Options include partition of the hda disk, we use the defaults and put all the system in a partition and default swap size. We add the general user named beagle and after rebooting, login, become root, change the password and install the SSH server: sudo su - passwd apt-get install openssh-server Repeat this for all the nodes. The next steps will be only from the master node. SSH access You need to create a pair of keys for each user to access any node without a password, first we create it in the general user beagle : ssh-keygen cp .ssh/id_pub .ssh/authorized_keys Root also need this keys, but we don't export the root's home, after you created the keys, you need to copy to all the nodes. This st...
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