In search of RLX blade software

[Camiel Vanderhoeven]

I’ve been given a couple of RLX blade server chassis loaded with blades (one with Transmeta Crusoe cpu’s, and one with Pentium III cpu’s). I hope you’ll allow me to count these as “vintage” because of their interesting origin: the Pentium III loaded chassis was part of a 768 node computer cluster at the Sanger Institute in the UK, and was used in the last stretch of the DNA sequencing computations for the Human Genome Project.

I’d like to build a compute cluster out of these, but I don’t have the rpm’s they supplied to customize Linux for their blades. Ideally, I’d hope to find a copy of their “Control Tower” blade management software, and their customized Linux installation images, but just the bare rpm’s would do for now. From the RLX platform guide, I’d hope to find:

kernel-*rlx*.i386.rpm
kernel-headers-*rlx*.i386.rpm
devfsd-*rlx*.i386.rpm
ucd-snmp-*rlx*.i386.rpm
net-snmp-*rlx*.i386.rpm
ucd-snmp-utils-*rlx*.i386.rpm
net-snmp-utils-*rlx*.i386.rpm
bootctl-*rlx*.i386.rpm
atftp-*rlx*.i386.rpm
lm_sensors-*-*rlx*.i386.rpm
lm_sensors-drivers-*-*rlx*.i386.rpm
lm_sensors-devel-*-*rlx*.i386.rpm
base-utils-*rlx*.i386.rpm
runctl-*rlx*.noarch.rpm
networkcfg-*rlx*.noarch.rpm
mgmtmode-*rlx*.noarch.rpm
namedcfg-*rlx*.noarch.rpm
dhcpdcfg-*rlx*.noarch.rpm
lilo-*rlx*.i386.rpm
grub-*rlx*.i386.rpm
rlx-clientpm-*rlx*.i386.rpm



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