ubuntu "make-fai-bootfloppy is currently broken."

2008-04-07 Thread Goesta Smekal
Hi folks, migrating our ancient Ubuntu Dapper-Drake FAI to Hardy Heron I encountered a very annoying message: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# make-fai-bootfloppy -B -d d -f /tmp/dummy -i > /tmp/hardy.iso "FAI_FLAGS=verbose" > make-fai-bootfloppy is currently broken. It does not support kernels with >

Re: ubuntu "make-fai-bootfloppy is currently broken."

2008-04-07 Thread Henning Sprang
Goesta Smekal wrote: Installing Hardy on up to 140 Desktops aged 0 to 5 years I simply can't do without initrd. Besides the default kernels of most distros nowadays are initrd. Is there any remedy? * Looking at the code and try to fix the problem * boot with PXE Both sound quite some work,

Re: ubuntu "make-fai-bootfloppy is currently broken."

2008-04-07 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Goesta Smekal wrote: >> Installing Hardy on up to 140 Desktops aged 0 to 5 years I simply can't >> do without initrd. Besides the default kernels of most distros nowadays >> are initrd. >> >> Is there any remedy? > > * Looking at the code and try to fix the problem > * boot with PXE > [...] Use

Re: ubuntu "make-fai-bootfloppy is currently broken."

2008-04-07 Thread Goesta Smekal
Michael Tautschnig schrieb: > > Use FAI-CD ... Sounds promising. And quite obvious too ;-) I got an ISO now, but no machine at hand. I will try and report ... thanks Goesta -- #!/usr/bin/perl foreach $c (split(/ /,"47 6f 65 73 74 61 20 53 6d 65 6b 61 6c 0d 0a")) { print pack("C", hex($c)