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Installing TuxOnIce on CentOS Rocks cluster distribution

Hello,

I am planning on installing TuxOnIce to CentOS Rocks Linux 5.4.3 (Viper). The Kernel information is 2.6.18-238.19.1-el5 x86_64. Is it possible to install TuxOnIce to this kind of operating system, and which one of the source files found on http://tuxonice.net/ should be downloaded for the installation? I could not find any installation instructions on the TuxOnIce website, can they be found somewhere?

BR,

Olli

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Nix | 3 Feb 20:52

Re: Installing TuxOnIce on CentOS Rocks cluster distribution

On 3 Feb 2012, Mämmelä Olli verbalised:

> I am planning on installing TuxOnIce to CentOS Rocks Linux 5.4.3
> (Viper). The Kernel information is 2.6.18-238.19.1-el5 x86_64. Is it

Nobody maintains ToI for such kernels (being as it is based on an
ancient baseline kernel and then has a large number of patches for later
kernels applied, some very invasive, with all the patches glumped
together in a single huge patch specifically to make it hard to figure
out what's been done).

Even if a patch existed against 2.6.18 (which was released almost six
years ago), and even if it applied against the heavily modified RHEL
version, it would be guaranteed to have large numbers of bugs fixed in
ToI releases for later kernels, since there's no way it would be tested
very often. Worse yet, TuxOnIce depends on the freeze/hibernate
machinery in the kernel proper, which was in distinctly embryonic state
that long ago: and RHEL is really meant for always-on servers, so the
likelihood of RH having backported later suspend/resume bugfixes into
their RHEL kernels is distinctly remote.

My advice is that if you're planning to use a desktop, you should
probably use a more desktoppy OS than CentOS. (That would be pretty much
*any* Linux distro not based on RHEL.)

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Matthias Hensler | 4 Feb 14:57

Re: Installing TuxOnIce on CentOS Rocks cluster distribution

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 07:52:21PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> On 3 Feb 2012, Mämmelä Olli verbalised:
> 
> > I am planning on installing TuxOnIce to CentOS Rocks Linux 5.4.3
> > (Viper). The Kernel information is 2.6.18-238.19.1-el5 x86_64. Is it
> 
> Nobody maintains ToI for such kernels (being as it is based on an
> ancient baseline kernel and then has a large number of patches for
> later kernels applied, some very invasive, with all the patches
> glumped together in a single huge patch specifically to make it hard
> to figure out what's been done).

Older Tuxonice-builds for CentOS/RHEL5 are available at
http://mhensler.de/swsusp/download_en.php (or http://atrpms.net/). The
last released kernel is 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 (with TuxOnIce 2.2.9).

I will try to build the current kernel with the old patchset. If that
works without to much hassle you can expect to find updated RPMs on the
above pages within 1 week or so.

Regards,
Matthias

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Matthias Hensler | 4 Feb 20:30

Re: Installing TuxOnIce on CentOS Rocks cluster distribution

On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 02:57:23PM +0100, Matthias Hensler wrote:
> I will try to build the current kernel with the old patchset. If that
> works without to much hassle you can expect to find updated RPMs on
> the above pages within 1 week or so.

The current Redhat Enterprise 5 / CentOS kernel (2.6.18-274.17.1) with
TuxOnIce-support is now available from http://mhensler.de/swsusp/ and
should be available on ATrpms soon.

Greetings,
Matthias

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