[ydl-gen] Installing YDL 4.1 on new Xserve

Kai Staats kstaats at terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Mar 22 09:21:45 MST 2006


On Tuesday 21 March 2006 22:57, drivah at speakeasy.net wrote:
> We have a new Xserve.  The new YDL 4.1 installs just
> fine on two new dual cpu G5s.  Now on to the Xserve.
> What is the prefered method?  The Xserve is headless.
>
> 1)Buy a graphics card?  Which brand?
>
> 2) take the Xserve HD out and install it in one of the
> G5s?
>
> 3) There is a serial port on the Xserve and I've seen
> mention of serial console.  Is there a console monitor
> where I can boot off network resource for installation
> or local DVD/CD?

Y-HPC is the recommended method as it offers a means of building cluster 
nodes, rapidly and effectively. Else, you will need to establish a 
tftp/dhcp/ramdisk/rsync environment as well as set the cluster node for 
headless booting.

kai


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