Being a member of the Highlander GrandChallenge Team of NJIT ...Visit us at ECE study Lounge(FAC 104B)... We are involved in making an Autonomous car for the DARPA GrandChallenge competetion here and we are one of the few teams selected for the prelimeneries to run for a $2 million race!!! . We have many Comps running many sensors and high level programs on various comps from real time pentium class machine to PowerPC servers(donated generously by IBM)....
Anyways installing stuff on these is fun
it has a management module which looks a lot like this
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These beasts use 220V with abt 2600W of power. Each is a dual powerpc
970FX with abt 4GB of RAM. And they make awful sounds!!!
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| this is an inbuilt feature of the server rack. and so i m not really sure how these ibm people do this( that is having a https connection etc etc and that too in a small module, no doubt there design is world renowned for blades). Anyways back to the story.... these blades have to be booted from a telnet thingy... |
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These are photos of the installation start for SUSE SLES9(SUSE LINUX ENTERPRISE 9)
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once booted then the screen for Yastboot looks like this
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sometimes the telnet thingy screws up and looks like this
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I am a debian fan and the reason why I have to install *SUSE* is because there is not good distro that can take care of the auto-firmware of js20 blades which we are using. People familiar with MAC may know that their firmware or bios(for x86) is pretty advanced and is like a small OS!!! JS20 is also one of this and is pretty advanced compared to a bios of a pentium class machine. There might be questions do we really need a telnet session to do all this stuff? dont we have a monitor port here... |
| There might be questions do we really need a telnet session to do all this stuff? dont we have a monitor port here... Sadly these are dummy ports with no VGA Wink so SOL is pretty much the only way to do stuff! |
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I m a debian fanatic, but other than SUSE and Redhat JS20 cant be installed... so i thought of a better idea distro over distro.... let suse's yaboot boot the system but replace the suse kernel and files with debian.... to do that is simple. when making the partitions just make an extra partition called /debian .... once the system is installed, copy deb distro to that /debian directory and then change the / to /debian. to do that one needs to change also the boot params and some yaboot stuff too.... that too i will write later in a Distro on Distro guide and a detailed howto on debian on js20 blades.... *muses* it works !
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btw sorry for the low quality photos....thats from my linux phone
*everything linux* Update: A detailed conversion of the JS-20 Blades from SUSE to Debian here |
