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You should lose all of your changes if your OS is kept in RAM once you power off the node, reboot it, etc. <BR>
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On 7/7/10 10:33 AM, "Jonathan Aquilina" <<a href="eagles051387@gmail.com">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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its actually easier if you use one os you know how to work with that way. the os doesnt need to be unique for each node, but you want the slave nodes to have as much ram as possible. also you will need to use pxe to boot off the master node as well as tftp to transfer the information from master to slaves. when goign diskless all information on slaves is stored in ram. then once you power them off if im not mistaken any data is sent back to the master for storage<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>For instance, network configuration and hostfiles need to be specified somewhere, but if all nodes boot the same root, then where is this information stored? <BR>
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