Not sure if this is the right forum for this but I'll give it a shot and prepare to be moved

So I am building a fairly large cluster (~60 node) for the quantum computing lab at my school... and I was hoping to get some help with some of the configurations that I am struggling with... The requirements for the cluster are: 1) the IPs for the nodes are statically assigned based on MAC... 2) the DVD be copied to the HD and used to boot the nodes (this should be easy but for some reason I am struggling with it)... 3) the hard drive should be shared over the network so that work done on the cluster can be stored there and accessed via SSH... any thoughts would be most appreciated and thanks in advance =)

PS... well, it looks like fixed mapping is achieved via the PXE config on the server... editting the /etc/dhcpd.conf file... but openmosix overwrites this file when it starts... intriguing problems...