Re: floppy-image is too big

2006-12-04 Thread Henning Sprang
On 12/4/06, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Sunday 03 December 2006 19:35, Henning Sprang wrote: > and xen hvm systems also can neither run > real nor etherboot pxe at the moment) How do you boot xen systems now? Paravirtualized systems with Xen tools and a kernel that resides

Re: floppy-image is too big

2006-12-04 Thread Micha Beyer
at monday, 4. Dec 2006 12:41 wrote Holger Levsen: > * as floppies are really rare nowadays, the kernel size is not optimized > for 1.44mb size anymore. Use http://rom-o-matic.net/ to generate a > etherboot floppy for netbooting using PXE or copy the 2.88mb floppy image > to a CD. > > * Alterna

Re: Sending DHCP requests .... timed out

2006-12-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 03 December 2006 17:50, Thomas Lange wrote: > Are you using a Cisco switch? I had similar problems with Cisco > switches when not enabling the fastport feature (this disables > spanning tree). But Ingo wrote, those cards work with the debian-installer (and others)... so I don't thi

Re: floppy-image is too big

2006-12-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 03 December 2006 19:35, Henning Sprang wrote: > and xen hvm systems also can neither run > real nor etherboot pxe at the moment) How do you boot xen systems now? Have you filed a (wishlist) bug for this issue? (And btw, this is a perfect example why fai-kernels need to go away an

Re: floppy-image is too big

2006-12-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 03 December 2006 15:45, Micha Beyer wrote: > we are using here the fai-server 3.1.2 and fai-kernels 1.13 and we need the > floppy-bootimage for twelve clients. > The message ist that the kernel-image is too big for the floppy, really the > image has 1,5MB. Where is the mistake and wh