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@xxxxxxxxxx>
