Re: 8MB
New record! FAI installation completed sucessfully after 22 hours :-). 468DX2, 8MB FAI Installation on the 8MB systems worked with enabling swap in class/00swap and sfdisk=-f in class/8MB.var. Ciao' Harry
Re: 8MB
Hi Harry,
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 05:37:28PM +0100, Harald Gr?ne wrote:
New record!
FAI installation completed sucessfully after 22 hours :-).
468DX2, 8MB
FAI Installation on the 8MB systems worked with enabling swap in class/00swap
and sfdisk=-f in class/8MB.var.
Congratulations!
Let me guess: you're using a WD8003 network adapter? ;-)
I'll try 486DX2 128MB soon... but I'll get a decent i/f card before
to replace the NE2000 that's in there now :)
Cheers,
Steffen
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Re: 8MB
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 03:36:44PM +0100, Harald Gröne wrote: In the FAI user guide it says, that 8MB on the clients is enough for FAI installation. I just started a FAI bootdisk on an 486, but It crashes during kernel boot. Do I have to build a custom kernel to get it work? Maybe try the 'tiny' kernel patchset available from http://www.selenic.com/tiny/ according to the claims of its author, a kernel patched with this can be run with 4 megs of memory. If you build a custom FAI kernel: take out all the network card drivers you know you won't need; this will save a lot of memory. -- c u henning
8MB
Hi, In the FAI user guide it says, that 8MB on the clients is enough for FAI installation. I just started a FAI bootdisk on an 486, but It crashes during kernel boot. Do I have to build a custom kernel to get it work? Ciao' Harry
Re: 8MB
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:36:44 +0100, Harald Gröne [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, In the FAI user guide it says, that 8MB on the clients is enough for FAI installation. I just started a FAI bootdisk on an 486, but It crashes during kernel boot. Do I have to build a custom kernel to get it work? 8MB was enough in the old days. Since the default fai install kernel now uses much more drivers, 8 MB will not suffice. AFAIK the linux kernel now has also more memory requirements to get working. -- regards Thomas
