Fwd: fai -- opteron

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

from http://www.informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE/fai/

NEWS: You can install your Opteron with an amd64 system system using
FAI. A fai-kernel and a tarball of the nfsroot is available. 

from http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/amd64/

These are the files you need for installing a AMD64 host with FAI.

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE !!!

Install fai_2.5.5_all.deb (a beta version)

Extract the tarball, which is a AMD64 nfsroot.
Copy nfsroot/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-fai to /boot/fai an use fai-chboot(8)
to boot this kernel. The default pxelinux.0 image from i386 from sarge
shoul also work, but here also the (more recent?) version from the
amd64 package.


Also read "The Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOWTO"
http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/1314/21/debian-amd64-howto.html
There you find all info how to define the AMD64 mirror in the file
sources.list 

Edit inside this nfsrot the files etc/hosts, etc/fai/* to meet your
local needs

Use the new 06hwdetect.source.

You can also install all these files on a i386 or any other
architecture.

Thomas Lange, 30 june 2004


regards,
	Holger Levsen


On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 11:43, Vincent Kraeutler wrote:
> just out of curiousity:
> 
> does anyone have experience running fai (or debian woody/sarge in general) on opteron
> in 64-bit mode?
> 
> regards,
> v.