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2. Downloading and Installing mosix.

It is assumed that the reader has used Debian GNU/Linux for some time and is familiar with the system, in general. It is also assumed that the target machines are already setup, and running a recent version of Debian GNU/Linux.

The aim of this document is to allow a user to quickly setup a small to medium sized mosix cluster, and does not attempt to provide a solution for every situation.

2.1 Get the packages from the 'testing' distribution.

The current 'stable' distribution doesn't include mosix and related software. Hence you will have to modify /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following line for getting the packages from the testing distribution.

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main

Now run

apt-get update

to update the lists. The following mosix related software is available on Debian:

APT takes care of dependencies and versions. The packages can be downloaded and installed with

apt-get install mosix kernel-patch-mosix mps mosixview update-cluster

If you install update-cluster, the mosix package will detect so, and run a debconf script that will allow you to generate /etc/mosix/mosix.map. (Currently, this will only do simple configurations, and the complex topologies will have to be created by hand.) Note, in Debian, the configuration files are placed in /etc/mosix and not in /etc.

update-cluster is a new tool, which aims to keep information about the cluster, which can be used by various other packages to generate their config files.


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