My 2p to this discussion: if you have a choice between services in your
control and services out of your control always take the former :-)
Peter
Santanu Das ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> Mark Nelson wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:16:01 +0000
> > Paul Kyberd <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Paul
> >
> >> I am trying to install EDG at Brunel - (too late for any
> >> official
> >>position in the testbed).
> >>
> >> Having trouble getting anything to work - I suspect part of my
> >>trouble is that I have the LCFG server on a dhcp served (non-static)
> >>address.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I'm currently in the process of installing the GridPP system at Durham,
> > my lcfg server is on a static IP, do you have a dhcp server already on
> > the subnet the lcfg server is connected , if so you will have problems
> > if you have the LCFG to act as dhcp server, there can only be one dhcp
> > server on each subnet.
>
> It's recommended but not absolutely needed. In fact our LCFG sever gets
> its IP from our departmental DHCP server (but it's static DHCP) and we
> are on the same subnet as our department but we are using separate
> switch for the grid system.
>
> The host name (FQDN) of the LCFG sever can be used in place of it's IP
> if you have a unique hostname.
>
> Cheers,
> Santanu
>
>
> I have the GridPP system on a separate subnet to
> > the rest of the office.
> >
> >
> >> Can someone say if I need a static address or if not is there
> >>anything special I need to do ?
> >>
> >> Secondly when you try to boot a CE either from the floppy or
> >> the
> >>LAN what do you expect to see?
> >
> >
> >
> > You see what looks like a rehat 7.3 startup screen as the various
> > components install. A work of advice, if you are using 2.08 you need to
> > create an additional directory
> >
> > mkdir /opt/local/linux/7.3/RPMS/WP8/Alice
> >
> > or the install will fail with the error message -
> >
> > Error: cp cannot create regular file
> > `/root//var/obj/conf/fstab/fstab.hda': no such file and directory
> >
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> >>
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