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A great writeup about Rocks 6.2 can be found here - https://kb.iu.edu/d/bdpe. The user guide has a walk through for basic install here - http://www.rocksclusters.org/assets/usersguides/roll-documentation/base/6.2/install-frontend.html.
1) Download the jumbo DVD from http://www.rocksclusters.org/ and burn to a DVD.
2) Insert the disc and reboot the frontend
3) Select F11 to go to the bios boot menu and select boot from CD/DVD drive
4) At the prompt type "build"
5) Select your rolls from the CD/DVD-based roll
Make sure to include Kernel, base, HPC (openmpi, mpich, etc.), web-server, OS, Bio, Java, Ganglia (cluster monitoring software), Perl, Python, SGE (queue system), Area51 (security), KVM and ZFS
6) Enter the cluster information
For example:
Fully-qualified host name: demeter.mse.ufl.edu
Cluster name: Demeter
All other fields are optional.
7) Fill in the Ethernet Configuration for Public network
For example:
Public network interface: em2/eth1
IP address: 10.5.46.XX
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
mtu: 1500
8) Fill in the Ethernet Configuration for Private network
Generally the default values will be sufficient
9) Fill in the Miscellaneous Network Settings
Gateway: 10.5.46.1
DNS servers: check on one of the other clusters for the full list (cat /etc/resolv.conf) and enter the addresses separated by a comma (no spaces)
10) Enter the Root password
11) Configure the timezone
12) Select manual partitioning
13) For our clusters sda is the boot drive with the OS files, sdb, sdc and sdd are the user account drives.
Delete the partitions on sda and create the following:
Mount sdb, sdc and sdd to /export2~4, except on Demeter where you have to mount the LVM Volume Groups to /export2
14) let rocks install (will take ~30 minutes)
15) Install the compute nodes and export the home directories to the nodes
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