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From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9?
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On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:15 PM, William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:

> I've found setting up diskless boot with Linux to be a major
> pain with most of the common distributions.

yes, they all suck. Try this: onesis.org

for a reasonable system, used at sandia on a 4096-node cluster.

for even lighter weight, see the xcpu.org tutorial on onesis+xcpu.
xcpu2 now works almost the same as the cpu command (yes, cpu as in
plan 9 cpu).

ron