Hi Andrea: This sounds good - I can help you test this.
In the time being, we usually just ask users who only have floppy disk drives to use http://etherboot.sf.net - I think it's the same thing as rom-o-matic. Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Andrea Righi > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 10:36 > To: Brian Elliott Finley > Cc: sisuite-dev; Bernard Li > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] to floppy install, or to not > > Regarding this thread... I've done a little patch to implement a new > command: si_mkautoinstallnetbootfloppy. > > This command should replace the si_mkautoinstalldiskette, since this > last one can be considered deprecated, because the last > kernels+initrds > are too big to fit in a single floppy... > > The si_mkautoinstallnetbootfloppy creates a bootable floppy using a > network-enabled version of GRUB. It should support a lot of ethernet > nics (looking at the configure...) and implements the network PXE > capabilities using a floppy (so you always need to setup a > boot server). > > Another way is to use the very cool rom on-line generation > (http://rom-o-matic.net/) to generate a floppy boot disk specific for > the opportune client's nic (maybe we could add a link in the wiki > page...). Anyway, in this case the user must know the > specific network > card installed in the clients.. so the GRUB approach seems to > be easier > from the user point of view. > > If you think this command could be useful I'll proceed to > commit it in > the trunk. Let me know... At the moment I'm using it to successfully > install my old P3 PC! ;) > > Regards, > -Andrea > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
