Re: Install ext3fs with FAI

2002-01-18 Thread Sebastian Benoit
Blake Barnett([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2002.01.18 13:59:24 +: > On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 12:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are you certain it's faster? I don't know much about the particulars of how > > ext3 is implemented, but I was under the impression that a slight performance > > hit was the tra

Re: Problems with bootp and self-compiled kernels

2002-01-18 Thread Robert Rakowicz
Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > Hi all! > > I wanted to add aic7xxx support in the boot kernel (I don't know if it > should have been loaded automatically as a module, but it did not do so) > but I was not able to boot because the kernel did not send any bootp > requests. have You this p

Re: Install ext3fs with FAI

2002-01-18 Thread Blake Barnett
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 12:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you certain it's faster? I don't know much about the particulars of how > ext3 is implemented, but I was under the impression that a slight performance > hit was the tradeoff for journalling. >From listening to Andrew Morton talk about

Re: Install ext3fs with FAI

2002-01-18 Thread chewie
> I managed to install ext3fs with fai (woody). Excellent! > The only things to change were to generate a kernel with ext3-support > (2.4.17) for the target machine, set an extra step with 'tune2fs -j' in > setup_harddisks after mke2fs (of course, make-fai-nfsroot), create a script > EXT3 which

Re: Woody roll-out

2002-01-18 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:37:09 +0100, "Michael Renner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > I'am very interested to migrade my system (RedHat 7.1, fully > automaticly installed with a kickstart server, administrate with > a commercial tool 'venus' to debian (which I prefer) togehter The

Install ext3fs with FAI

2002-01-18 Thread Albrecht Frank
Hi Folks, I managed to install ext3fs with fai (woody). The only things to change were to generate a kernel with ext3-support (2.4.17) for the target machine, set an extra step with 'tune2fs -j' in setup_harddisks after mke2fs (of course, make-fai-nfsroot), create a script EXT3 which changes th

Re: Woody roll-out

2002-01-18 Thread Blake Barnett
Well, after looking closely at things, it looks like there's not much to change other than a few settings in fai.conf and package names. I was thinking there would be something fairly major to bite me. I'm making good progress now. On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 20:36, Phillip Smith wrote: > > > On 17

Re: Woody roll-out

2002-01-18 Thread chewie
Blake Barnett said: > Do you know of any successful implementations? (say.. 15-50 > servers..) Anyone I could use as a reference? I don't want to Yes. Ours. ;-) I'm working for the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota. I've used our woody-based

Re: Woody roll-out

2002-01-18 Thread Michael Renner
On Friday 18 January 2002 11:16, Thomas Lange wrote: > I'm always looking for references, but no one makes a little web page > or write a short "how I did it". I would like to collect links to > installations using FAI, but there are few people giving me a link. > Some other installations (but to

Re: Woody roll-out

2002-01-18 Thread Thomas Lange
> On 17 Jan 2002 12:49:53 -0700, Blake Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > Do you know of any successful implementations? (say.. 15-50 > servers..) Anyone I could use as a reference? I don't want to I'm always looking for references, but no one makes a little web page or write a