[NBLUG/talk] Installing Fedora from HD

[Todd Cary]

Yup!  All I need to do is use the Rescue CD that was part of the Fedora 
3 download!

Todd

Lincoln Peters wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 13:22, Todd Cary wrote:
>  
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>>I have downloaded the iso files and made the CD's, however, I would like 
>>to put the install on a HD in my network and do the install from that HD 
>>over the network.  Since I have never done this, I am not sure what to 
>>put on a network drive (on another Linux server).
>>
>>Can this be done?
>>    
>>
>
>There should be an option that allows you to to install over a network
>(using NFS, FTP, or HTTP).  I used it a few years ago to install Red Hat
>Linux on several used computers, but the exact procedure has probably
>changed since then.
>
>Look for an image of a boot floppy with a name like "bootnet.img".  If I
>remember correctly, this works like the "boot.img" floppy that allows
>you to install on a computer that cannot boot from a CD, except that it
>runs the installer over a network.  When I did it, it would try to
>configure the NIC (prompting for the appropriate kernel module, if it
>can't auto-configure it), ask how to connect to the network (it supports
>DHCP as well), ask for the protocol, hostname, and path of the server
>with the installation data, and from that point forward it acted just
>like any other Red Hat Linux installation process.
>
>---
>Lincoln Peters
><sampln at sbcglobal.net>
>
>* Culus thinks we should go to trade shows and see how many people we
>  can kill by throwing debian cds at them
>
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