FW: FAI Partition?

[Bruce Edge]

We do the same thing with a shared grub config file that you can load of the LAN via TFTP.
This way you don't even need a FAI partition, just the grub boot entry.

Your grub/menu.lst contains all your normal boot entries, when a FAI one that does a "bootp --with-configfile", this option pulls up another grub menu that contains all out FAI flavors.

-Bruce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Jimenez [mailto:pj at place.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 1:48 PM
> To: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
> Subject: FAI Partition?
> 
> 
> 
> Seems like I saw something about a way to make any machine
> self-FAI-upgradable by putting a fai-floppy img as a small partitionon
> it... does this ring any bells for anyone?  I've got a really 
> heterogenous
> set of machines that I need to install over, and they often need to be
> 'clean-slate'd, which right now I'm doing with a fai floppy.  
> I'd like to
> remove the need for the floppy if possible - but the don't all run PXE
> or anything like that so I'm looking for this partition-using scheme.
> Anyone got pointers?
> 
> 
>   --pj
> 
>