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>Chapter 6. PlumpOS</TD
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>6.3. Requirements</H1
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>As the purpose of PlumpOS is to add nodes to a cluster, it is assumed
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that you already have a running openMosix cluster -- or perhaps only a
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single openMosix node -- from which you will be initiating jobs. All
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machines in the cluster must conform to the following requirements:</P
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>PlumpOS Machine(s) 586+ CPU</P
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>bootable CD-ROM drive</P
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>Between 32M and 128M of RAM. Because of some oddities in the openMosix
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kernels at the time of this writing, simply passing the size of the
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ramdisk is not working so one has to actually use a ramdisk pre-made
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for a specific size. There should be several ramdisks avaliable at
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PlumpOS mirrors which can be placed in the disks' root directory on
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the actual cdrom ISO (or rootdisk/disks/ if you're inside the PlumpOS
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package directory).</P
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>Master Machine(s) GNU/Linux/openMosix kernel (same version as all the
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PlumpOS kernel you are booting on the Child/Slave PlumpOS Machine(s))</P
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>Network Environment Running DHCP server (if you don't, or won't, run
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DHCP, you can still manually configure your system: simply go to each
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PlumpOS machine and enter in your desired configuration information
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with the supplied networking tools. Using DHCP is highly recommended
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however, and will greatly simplify your life in the long run.</P
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>The following network modules are present in most if not all of the
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supplied kernels' modules tarball (in
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/kernels/KERNELNAME/modules.tgz), although not all support
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auto-probing; if you don't see support for your card in this list,
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then PlumpOS will not work for you.</P
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>3c501.o, 3c503.o, 3c505.o, 3c507.o, 3c509.o, 3c515.o, 3c59x.o,
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8139cp.o, 8139too.o, 82596.o, ac3200.o, acenic.o, aironet4500_card.o,
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aironet4500_core.o, aironet4500_proc.o, arlan-proc.o, arlan.o,
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at1700.o, bsd_comp.o, cs89x0.o, de4x5.o, depca.o, dgrs.o, dl2k.o,
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dmfe.o, dummy.o, e100/e100.o, e1000/e1000.o, e2100.o, eepro.o,
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eepro100.o, eexpress.o, epic100.o, eth16i.o, ewrk3.o, fealnx.o,
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hamachi.o, hp-plus.o, hp.o, hp100.o, lance.o, lp486e.o, mii.o,
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natsemi.o, ne.o, ne2k-pci.o, ni5010.o, ni52.o, ni65.o, ns83820.o,
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pcmcia, pcnet32.o, ppp_async.o, ppp_deflate.o, ppp_generic.o,
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ppp_synctty.o, pppoe.o, pppox.o, sis900.o, sk98lin/sk98lin.o, slhc.o,
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smc-ultra.o, smc9194.o, starfire.o, strip.o, sundance.o, sungem.o,
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sunhme.o, tc35815.o, tg3.o, tlan.o, tokenring/{3c359.o abyss.o ibmtr.o
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lanstreamer.o olympic.o smctr.o tms380tr.o tmsisa.o tmspci.o},
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tulip/tulip.o, via-rhine.o, wavelan.o, wd.o, winbond-840.o,
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wireless/{airo.o airo_cs.o hermes.o orinoco.o orinoco_cs.o
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orinoco_pci.o orinoco_plx.o}, yellowfin.o </EM
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>Please also note that PlumpOS may not work on a laptop: it definitely
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doesn't support PCMCIA cards (yet), and will probably not configure
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openMosix properly if your machine contains multiple connected
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Ethernet adapters. This is a temporary limitation of the
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configuration scripts, and should be resolved in future releases.</P
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