Booting off cdrom to do a network install

csm at Lunar-Linux.org csm at Lunar-Linux.org
Wed Jan 21 20:11:37 UTC 2004


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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Chadley Wilson spewed into the bitstream:

CW>Hello My name is chad I had a bit of trouble with finding this list,
CW>But here I am.
CW>
CW>I am completely focused on testing the Fedora product for end-users,
CW>I work for the 3rd biggest manufacturer of computers in South Africa,
CW>There is Mercer then HP then Pro-line and then Sahara
CW>
CW>Our company has just started a venture where we have just started a
CW>Linux range of systems,
CW>The first thing is to get all the nice stuff working, 
CW>Like games, easy access to drives and flask mem sticks, 4ch sound 5.2
CW>surround sound, dvd players, front-end burners for creating Cd's and all
CW>those luxuries,
CW>
CW>Lets face it you cant expect the Miss Jone to learn terminal and stacks
CW>of bash commands just so that she can download picks from the digital
CW>cam.
CW>
CW>The first obstacle I encountered was with the on-board savage S3 km133
CW>driver,
CW>It seems there's a bug in BIOS causing the screen to blank-out as X
CW>starts,
CW>The work around for install is on boot you type "linux lowres" but when
CW>booting from cdrom for NFS or other media installation you need to pass
CW>the "linux askmethod" option, the question is how do you pass both? 
CW>I have tried using kickstart but the boot disk doesn't support my
CW>network card (rhinefet.so) where the CD does.
CW>any suggestions, or work around?

use a boot.iso and at the boot prompt type:

linux ks=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/path/to/ks.cfg ksdevice=ethX

Then just turn on your web server on your network install point and you're 
off and running.

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csm
Lunar Linux Project Lead
Disclaimer: "I am not a curmudgeon! No... really..."
Addendum: "Bwahahaha! Fire up the orbital mind-control lasers!"
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