[Quantian-general] RE: Hard install of Quantian via CD-ROMs

Wed Jun 21 23:22:02 UTC 2006

Hi,

Your mail got delayed from June 15th as you wrote the list without being
subscribed so that I had to manually approve. As I was away at a conference,
a slight delay ensued.

On 15 June 2006 at 21:31, AeschereData at aol.com wrote:
| This may be a very green issue for the audience:
|  
| I am presently running an 8-node cluster based on Fedora 4 and openMosix. I  
| am quite unhappy with Fedora's performance for this sort of setup and the 
| needs  I have presently. I really need a system which is more specific to my needs 
|  (e.g., has R, Octave, perl, and other software run for health sciences 
| research,  large simulations, and other associated statistical tasks). In other 
| words, a  setup without all the fat Fedora comes with. Which leads me to Quantian 
| (and  it's Debian-based, thank you--which I should have done in the first 
| place, I  know).
|  
| However, none of my nodes have DVD capability (alas, I'm on a budget  
| here)--only CD-ROM. 

As long as you can boot _one_ machine, a very elegant solution is to boot all
other nodes over the network using PXE. This has been available for years and
is quite helpful.

| Have I missed something or am I truly unable to find Quantian on CD-ROMs?  

Only older / smaller versions. You simply cannot put 7.5gb (uncompressed)
onto a single cdrom with capacity of 0.7gb.  So dvd it is.

| The websites the Quantian site takes me to appear to only offer DVDs. Does  
| anyone have any info. about correctly burning Quantian to CD-ROMs? Is Quantian  
| available on CD-ROMs and if so, where? I am planning on doing a hard install of  
| Quantian.
|  
| I'd greatly appreciate any pointers here re: getting Quantian onto CD-ROMs  
| correctly or finding where I may purchase such.

You'd have to 'remaster down' to fit onto a cdrom, and would probably have to
remove some of the health sciences goodies you would.  I'd try the PXE boot
solution. 

Cheers, Dirk

|  
| Respectfully,
| Eric Lanes, Ph.D.
| alternate e-mail:
| _lanesec at michigan.gov_ (mailto:lanesec at michigan.gov) 
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| <DIV>This may be a very green issue for the audience:</DIV>
| <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
| <DIV>I am presently running an 8-node cluster based on Fedora 4 and openMosix. I 
| am quite unhappy with Fedora's performance for this sort of setup and the needs 
| I have presently. I really&nbsp;need a system which is more specific to my needs 
| (e.g., has R, Octave, perl, and other software run for health sciences research, 
| large simulations, and other associated statistical tasks). In other words, a 
| setup without all the fat Fedora comes with. Which leads me to Quantian (and 
| it's Debian-based, thank you--which I should have done in the first place, I 
| know).</DIV>
| <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
| <DIV>However, none of my nodes have DVD capability (alas, I'm on a budget 
| here)--only CD-ROM. </DIV>
| <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
| <DIV>Have I missed something or am I truly unable to find Quantian on CD-ROMs? 
| The websites the Quantian site takes me to appear to only offer DVDs. Does 
| anyone have any info. about correctly burning Quantian to CD-ROMs? Is Quantian 
| available on CD-ROMs and if so, where? I am planning on doing a hard install of 
| Quantian.</DIV>
| <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
| <DIV>I'd greatly appreciate any pointers here re: getting Quantian onto CD-ROMs 
| correctly or finding where I may purchase such.</DIV>
| <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
| <DIV>Respectfully,</DIV>
| <DIV>Eric Lanes, Ph.D.</DIV>
| <DIV>alternate e-mail:</DIV>
| <DIV><A href="mailto:lanesec at michigan.gov">lanesec at michigan.gov</A></DIV>
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