Customizing your Rocks Installation

Chapter 5. Customizing your Rocks Installation

Table of Contents
5.1. Adding Packages to Compute Nodes
5.2. Customizing Configuration of Compute Nodes
5.3. Configuring Additional Ethernet Interfaces
5.4. Compute Node Disk Partitioning
5.4.1. Default Disk Partitioning
5.4.2. How to Change the Size of Root and Swap Partitions on Compute Nodes
5.4.3. Customizing Compute Node Disk Partitions
5.4.4. Forcing the Default Partitioning Scheme on a Compute Node
5.5. Creating a Custom Kernel RPM
5.5.1. Creating a Custom Kernel RPM using RedHat's Kernel Source
5.5.2. Creating a Custom Kernel RPM using kernel.org's Source
5.6. Mirroring the Rocks and Red Hat Distributions
5.6.1. Mirroring the Rocks Cluster Distribution
5.6.2. Incorporating Multiple Red Hat Mirrors
5.7. Making Your Own Cluster Distribution Media
5.8. Enabling RSH on Compute Nodes
5.9. Customizing Ganglia Monitors
5.10. Adding a New Appliance Type to the Cluster