Adding modules to FAI initrd

2010-09-28 Diskussionsfäden Chris Jewell
Hi all, I have a question, or perhaps even a feature request, concerning adding modules to the initrd that FAI builds for PXE booting, and subsequently for client installation. My clients have Broadcom NetExtreme NICs that are PXE-enabled. Unfortunately, the standard initrd that comes out of

Re: Adding modules to FAI initrd

2010-09-28 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Hi Chris, On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:06:16 pm Chris Jewell wrote: Hi all, I have a question, or perhaps even a feature request, concerning adding modules to the initrd that FAI builds for PXE booting, and subsequently for client installation. My clients have Broadcom NetExtreme NICs

Re: Installing Debian Squeeze (i386) - No $HOSTNAME set

2010-09-28 Diskussionsfäden Karl Wallner
Hallo Michael, Am 25.09.2010 17:53, schrieb Michael Tautschnig: It would be fantastic if you could provide the full logs of your installation, it seems that not too many people have used FAI on full squeeze systems before. We definitely need to resolve these issues before the release. here

preserving dos partitions

2010-09-28 Diskussionsfäden mamadou diop
Hello, i have configured my /srv/fai/config/disk_config/FAIBASE so that after installation the Windows partition is preserved. I am sure that the Windows partition is preserved because during installation, setup_harddisks told me that the /dev/sda1 driver was going to be preserved. Also, i have

Re: preserving dos partitions

2010-09-28 Diskussionsfäden Nicolas Courtel
mamadou diop a écrit : Hello, i have configured my /srv/fai/config/disk_config/FAIBASE so that after installation the Windows partition is preserved. I am sure that the Windows partition is preserved because during installation, setup_harddisks told me that the /dev/sda1 driver was going to be

Re: preserving dos partitions

2010-09-28 Diskussionsfäden mamadou diop
Thank you Nicolas, that has worked but it would be good to configure that in the server. 2010/9/28 Nicolas Courtel cour...@cena.fr mamadou diop a écrit : Hello, i have configured my /srv/fai/config/disk_config/FAIBASE so that after installation the Windows partition is preserved. I am sure

Re: preserving dos partitions

2010-09-28 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Thank you Nicolas, that has worked but it would be good to configure that in the server. (keeping Nicolas' email for reference below) This simply means that you should configure that in /srv/fai/config/files/boot/grub/menu.lst/ Hope this helps, Michael 2010/9/28 Nicolas Courtel