Frontend Installation
Frontend installation
Required the following CDs: Rocks Base CD,HPC Roll CD,Kernel Roll CD.As soon as boot off from CD,type “frontend”.This step must be operated fastly before the screen displays the “boot” prompt,or the CD will be told to install a compute node,not frontend we need. We could access the kickstart system by pressing Alt+F3 and Alt+F4 respectively.According to IA-64,the following command should be used:
$ frontend driverload=ide-scsi(or hdb=ide-scsi)
Installation steps:
1.Input CDs,and type “frontend”;
2.Input the cluster information;
3.Partition (Automatic or Disk Druid),If select manual partitioning,you must specify at least 6GB for the root partition and you must create a sperate /export partition.
The default configuration is automatic.
4.Private cluster network configuration;
5.Public cluster network configuration,Note,DHCP is not supported,we must specify the IP address.
6.Configure the gateway and DNS entries;
7.Set the timezone and NTP server;
8.Input the root password;
Then the frontend will format it’s file systems,and install the packages.