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: 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

Re: floppy-image is too big

2006-12-03 Thread Jens Dreger
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 03:45:36PM +0100, 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 a

Re: floppy-image is too big

2006-12-03 Thread Micha Beyer
Am Sonntag, 3. Dezember 2006 19:35 schrieb Henning Sprang: > Still, you can look in the README of the fai-kernels package, there's > a documentation on how to build you own fai-kernels, with only the > drivers you need. Okay, I want look around. In older versions I don't know this problem. Thank

Re: floppy-image is too big

2006-12-03 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi, On 12/3/06, Micha Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] The message ist that the kernel-image is too big for the floppy, really the image has 1,5MB. Where is the mistake and what can I do? It's quite possible that the default kernel is not optimized for floppy usage anymore, there are eve

floppy-image is too big

2006-12-03 Thread Micha Beyer
Hi, 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 what can I do? The NIC's are old and have no features how PX