Siemens BX300 Blade Servers -> FAI ?

[Geert Stappers]

At 18:34 +0100 12/4/02, Michael Ablassmeier wrote:
>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 ?
>

FAI is the acronym for Full Automatic Installation.
You can FAI when a installation is possible.

Leave the USB device for what is ( I don't think that BX3000 boot from USB )

Make a kernel with bcm5700 support.



Geert St
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