But then you'll get the blame if it goes wrong !
By the way, Imperial now at v2_1_9.
Barry.
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Peter Love wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:02:59 +0000
> From: Peter Love <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: a question
>
> 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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> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
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