Siemens BX300 Blade Servers -> FAI ?

[Michael Ablassmeier]

hi,

i have some questions, i think about to build an debian fai for our Siemens
BX300 Blade Servers.

1) This blade server naturally have no CDROM or Floppy drive, this Stuff
   gets connected over USB in front of a blade.
   Since the mainstream Debian installation does not provide to do a
   easy Installation from USB Devices i used some special USB Disk
   Images, what does the debian-fai Disk with USB Devices ?

2) [1] maybe issn a problem if i use BOOTP, but these Blades have a
   NetXtreme BCM5700 Gigabit Ethernet controller, the Module for this
   NICS isnt in the kernel images because noone understood what the Code
   really does and it doesnt have the right coding style.

   The Blades naturally provide the function to use a BOOTP but im still
   stuck, how will this work if in the later installation debian doesnt
   find any ethernet devices because of no bcm5700 module ?

thanks alot!
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greetings /*/ michael ablassmeier