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[Chris Hawkinson <>]

Great! Looking forward to the installer.

Chris

On 6/9/10 8:33 AM, Jason Zurawski wrote:
> Hi Chris;
>
> Thanks for this information. I am going to cross post to the
> performance-node-users list. Also note that the next release of the pS
> Performance Toolkit (3.2) will have a method to install to a hard drive.
> Expected release is late July of 2010.
>
> Thanks;
>
> -jason
>
> On 6/9/10 10:28 AM, Chris Hawkinson wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I looked for a How-to to install the pS-Performance toolkit image to a
> > hard drive, but none were forthcoming... so... here's what I did, which,
> > hopefully, will be useful to the community as well;
> >
> > Hardware: SGI/Rackable Systems dual Xeon 1U server. 2x146G SAS HDs. 4GB
> > RAM. 2x1GEnet. 1x10GEnet (Intel). Using an external USB CD drive.
> >
> > Goal: Setup a RAID 1 mirrored performance test point based on the
> > pS-Performance Toolkit v3.1.3 distribution.
> >
> > Steps I followed to get this up and running...
> >
> > 1) Booted the system with the pS-Performance Toolkit v3.1.3 CD
> >
> > 2) Logged in as knoppix and then 'sudo -i'
> >
> > 3) Run 'fdisk /dev/sda' and configured 2 partitions ...
> > a) primary part #1 - 142GB primary partition with a type of Linux (0x83)
> > b) primary part #2 - 4GB primary partition 2 with a type of Linux Swap
> > (0x82)
> >
> > *** if you are not setting up an MD RAID 1, skip to step 6, below
> >
> > 4) Run 'fdisk /dev/sdb' and setup the exact same partition map on the
> > 2nd drive
> >
> > 5) Setup an md raid 1 mirror...
> > a) 'modprobe raid1'
> > b) 'mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1
> > /dev/sdb1'
> > c) wait for the mirror to finish initializing (it'll print a message to
> > the console when finished, or 'cat /proc/mdstat')
> >
> > 6) Run 'knoppix-installer'
> > i) Configure options
> > a) select a type of 'Debian'
> > b) selected /dev/md0 as the installation partition (if you are using a
> > single disk, choose /dev/sda1 instead)
> > c) selected ext3 as the file system type
> > d) Entered knoppix as the "whole name", and also as the "user name"
> > e) entered suitable passwords for knoppix and administrator
> > f) entered a hostname for my system
> > g) selected MBR as the boot-loader option
> > ii) Select Start Installation and let it finish
> >
> > 7) I did see several setup warnings related to init.d which didn't seem
> > to have an effect on the installation
> >
> > 8) Answered NO when asked to insert a floppy, which isn't required for
> > this type of install
> >
> > 9) Setup completed and put me back to the root prompt.
> >
> > 10) For my RAID configuration, I also installed Grub to the 2nd HD, as
> > follows...
> > i) Run 'grub'
> > grub> device (hd0) /dev/sdb
> > grub> root (hd0,0)
> > grub> setup (hd0)
> > grub> quit
> >
> > 11) Removed the CD, and rebooted the system.
> >
> > 12) On 1st reboot, fsck will do a filesystem check on the boot hard
> > drive (/dev/md0 in my case)
> >
> > 13) Logged in as root (using the password I set for the administrator
> > account)
> >
> > 14) Ran 'visudo' and uncommented the knoppix user line. Saved the file.
> >
> > 15) Setup a RAID 1 for SWAP ...
> > a) 'mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2
> > /dev/sdb2'
> > b) wait for the mirror to finish initializing (it'll print a message to
> > the console when finished, or 'cat /proc/mdstat')
> >
> > 16) Configure swap with 'mkswap /dev/md1'
> >
> > 17) Enable swap with 'swapon /dev/md1'
> >
> > 18) Edit /etc/fstab and add the line '/dev/md1 none swap sw 0 0'
> >
> > 19) If using RAID, remove the last 4 lines in fstab which are
> > automatically added by the installer (these all have comments line '#
> > ADDED BY KNOPPIX')
> >
> > 20) If using RAID, edit /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and change the DEVICE line
> > to read 'DEVICE /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2'
> >
> > 21) If using RAID, edit /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig, search for
> >
> > 21) REBOOT. After reboot use 'swapon -s' to verify the RAID 1 swap
> > partition is being used.
> >
> > 22) Ran 'sudo np-toolkit-configure.py' and selected /dev/md0 as the
> > Storage device ... did rest of the Toolkit setup as usual.
> >
> > ... Seems to works for me! ...
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Chris Hawkinson
> > Network Performance Engineer
> > CENIC