Using a 3c990 with FAI

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 03:28:36 +0200 (MET DST), Jens Ruehmkorf <ruehmkorf at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE> said:

    > Technically there should be no problem to achieve your goal.

Yes that true. But with FAI, kernel modules for the network card
aren't supported.

    > You simply boot a kernel together with an initrd. Within that

FAI does not support using an initrd because it's much easier to do it
without one.

    > provided there. FAI doesn't use an initrd (because of memory
    > limitations I suppose).
No, because it's easier without initrd AND you need not much memory.


One other possibilty would be, to create a boot CD, that contains the
nfsroot. So FAI will not need the network card for mounting the root
filesystem. After loading the network kernel module, the installation
could go on. But that is in the future !

-- 
 Thomas
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