Siemens BX300 Blade Servers -> FAI ?

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 18:34:49 +0100, Michael Ablassmeier <michael.ablassmeier at holzkirchen.by.aok.de> said:

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


    > 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.
Now, you can use make-kpkg to create a kernel using an initrd. It
should be possible to boot from network card unsing PXE and then boot a
kernel, which uses an initrd. This could load your Gigabit kernel
module and then start the fai installation.

I would be very nice if you or someone else can try this and post a
summary how it works.

-- 
regards Thomas