Re: passing kernel options during network install?

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Chris Ricker wrote:

> Thanks, that seems to fix it (I'm currently 1800 megs into an install which
> never got more than 100 megs w/o it).
> 
> It might be worth adding that to the FAQ as the proper syntax when doing
> network installs, since I was trying various other incantations which didn't
> work ;-)

Agreed.
 
> This particular 'blade was previously running Debian. There, I needed the 
> nodma as well, but just passed it at the SILO prompt....

Post-install, you'll need to do that as well (or edit silo.conf).
 
> > I don't have this as a "must-fix" until the next release of Aurora, but if
> > public opinion is fervent enough, I can always spin a 1.1 with a newer
> > kernel.
> 
> Sounds good. I can always upgrade manually after the install finishes. With 
> the 2.4.21-pre5+ kernels, should I still need to disable DMA for the IDE 
> controller?

Jury is still out on that. Give it a try and see.

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