Re: kickstarting linux on Gigabit ethernet

[Scott Croft <secroft micron com>]

I have kickstarted a system with a copper GigE card and did it with a
custom boot image. Once I had the custom image, all went well and the
full system load took all of 5 minutes.

Scott

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 19:31, John wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, KHALID _ wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Very soon I will be getting a cluster of nodes that will be running 8.0, 
> > with gigabit ethernet (copper 10/100/1000) interconnect. I remember that I 
> > had some fun when trying to kickstart a cluster through Gigabit (fiber 
> > 1000), and ended up being told that kickstart does not work on fiber :(
> > 
> > Now am I expected to run into the same fun I had earlier? Has anybody in 
> > this list tried it out and can tell me that it can go as easy as 
> > kickstarting on fast ethernet?
>  
> I've not tried it, but I'd expect it to be precisely as easy as
> fast-ethernet.
> 
> That is, if you have a boot floppy with all your neeeded drivers (for
> the network) then it will work easily.
> 
> The problems I've had with fast-ethernet have arisen because the bootnet
> floppy image didn't have the driver I needed for the network card; once
> that's addressed by creating a custom boot floppy it's fine.
> 
> In my case, the inconvenience was that I had to use a second floppy if I
> didn't create a custom floppy.
> 
-- 
Scott Croft <secroft micron com>