I tried it with the v1.8 32 bit.
On the master node I installed the e1000e driver and then ran pelican_setup from a console; I could not get X windows to work as my display gave an error messaging indicating it was out or range.
The debian packages required to build the driver are linux-kernel-headers-2.6.26 and for good measure I downloaded all of the other dependencies also (i.e. cpp, gcc, libc6, libc60dev and so on). The source code for the driver was downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/. Once the packages to compile the kernel were installed, it was trivial to make, make_install, modprobe e1000e as root.
When at the appropriate stage, I began to switch on the compute nodes to allow them to boot via PXE.
However the displays attached to the compute nodes began to show the splash/boot screen identical to that which was shown on screen attached to the master node when it was booting from the live CD (i.e. a black/white image of pelicans). It then asked how I wanted to proceed with the boot sequence (i.e. Press F1 for help or Enter to boot:). This behaviour appears to be quite different to that shown in the tutorial web page.
Finally, during the boot phase of the master node, the console gave many I/O errors for a sector on the CD. I verified the MD5 of the downloaded image and then burnt a second CD at a slower speed. However this new CD also gave similar I/O sector errors. As an alternative solution, is it possible to boot pelican from a USB stick, and if so what are the steps involved?
