Using a 3c990 with FAI

[Xavier Andrade]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Thomas Lange wrote:

> >>>>> 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.
> 
What is the main problem about using initrd with FAI if I can still get a
nfsroot?

> 
> 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 !
> 

Yes, but I still need to install a CD-ROM drive in each node for
the installation.

Xavier Andrade