Is this in regards to a Intel PRO/1000 Gbit NIC?
If so, I have a floppy kickstart image you can have. Any Gbit NIC should
work, assuming the module loads correctly.
At 08:40 PM 1/7/2003 -0700, Scott Croft wrote:
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.
>
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Scott Croft <secroft@xxxxxxxxxx>
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