here is my deal... i have a bunch of older, crappy-ish computers i got for free... they dont have harddrives or monitors/keyboards... (no biggie, knoppix replaces hard drive, and i have a spare monitor and keyboard i swap around to test) but they do have CD roms, that they can boot from.... what I would LOVE to do, is remaster clusterknoppix(or set up an etherboot) to boot up, and start sshd (for system maintance...) and fire up openmosix and distcc, and connect to my main computer as nodes, effectivly giving my main computer a bit more CPU cycles.. I am hoping to automate this, so if the computers ever go down (power out) when they come back online, they boot and reconnect as nodes automatically.... Also, i am behind a private router that runs a dhcp... is there any way to leave that intact (not turn it off) and get this dream of mine to work?


In the long lun, I hope to be able to slap a remastered CD into my parents computer and get all the comps running as a large distcc/openmosix cluster for speedy remaster fun, and install-gentoo-stage1-on-a-brand-new-lappy fun....


any advice is welcome...