<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><title></title><head><meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><style type="text/css"> html, body {overflow-x: visible; } html { width:100%; height:100%;margin:0px; padding:0px; overflow-y: auto; overflow-x: auto; }body { font-size: 100.01%; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:transparent; overflow:show; background-image:none; margin:0px; padding:5px; }p { margin:0px; padding:0px; } body { font-size: 12px; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #FFFFFF; } p { margin: 0; padding: 0; } blockquote { padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; } blockquote.quote { border-left: 1px solid #CCC; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; } </style></head><body id="bodyElement" style=""> <p size="2" style="font-family: Verdana;"></p>@Chris Samuel, Mark Hahn, Greg Lindahl, Nifty Tom Mitchell, Greg Kurtzer and Tony Travis<br><br><p>Sorry for not answering so far, I have moved to Munich, Germany to work on my MSc thesis, so I'm pressed between getting a german visa and resolving my status at the University. :)<span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607036000" style=""><br><span style=""></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607036000" style=""><span style="">Thank you all very much for your advice, there's no way I could get this kind of expert knowledge and info anywhere else, and I really appreciate your help. </span><span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607068000" style=""><br><span style=""></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607068000" style=""><span style="">I've brought the hware with me (across the border without a problem :) ), and I'll start working on it as soon as I'm settled. Seems that I have multiple options:</span><span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607111000" style=""><br><span style=""></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607111000" style=""><span style="">1) Caos NSA + Warewulf + Perceus</span><span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607147000" style="">2) CentOS + ROCKS<span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607168000" style=""><span style="">3) Ubuntu + figure out what I need (Perceus probably)</span><span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607203000" style=""><br><span style=""></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607203000" style=""><span style="">and then figure out the partition layout and file systems that will improve performance and take care of the "</span>data=ordered" parameter for the kernel. I believe I have enough advice to try and make it work. </p><p id="__paragraph__1255607203000" style=""><br></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607203000" style="">I have set the "www.clustermonkey.net" as my homepage and I am going through the articles. Thank you all again very much, there is no way I could do this without your help and advice. <span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607531000" style=""><br><span style=""></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607531000" style=""><span style="">Best regards,</span><span></span></p><p id="__paragraph__1255607535000" style=""><span style="">Tomislav<br></span></p></body></html>