Successful Medialess Install of Fedora 11 i386 -- Mainly For Puppet

[Todd Zullinger]

Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I'm really interested in working with the puppet application, and I
> just happen to have an extra laptop hanging around. Said laptop
> turned out to be capable of booting from USB. I found an old
> external hard drive which formerly booted Fedora 8.
>
> I connected the hard drive to the laptop's USB port.
>
> Went to another machine and mounted the Fedora 11 i386 iso image on
> one of my webservers.
>
> Came back to the laptop and booted Fedora 8. By downloading the
> vmlinuz and initrd images off the web server, moving them into
> /boot, and then adding a suitable stanza to grub.conf, and then
> rebooting, I was able to get a medialess install started.
>
> I had a perfect install experience!
>
> The beauty of it is, because I checked off the Fedora updates
> repository as one of the repositories to use, I got the latest and
> greatest versions of everything. A big bonus was I didn't have to
> burn another DVD that would go unused and land in the trash. 10
> cheers for medialess installation methods.

Nice!  Once you get that all working to your liking, check out
cobbler.  You can use that to help setup a really nice PXE boot and
Virt install server.  I've use cobbler/koan and puppet to birth CentOS
and Fedora boxes for testing, and they come online for the first time
already configured to my liking, with all updates installed.  The virt
installs take under 15 minutes to create. :)

> As to the puppet client on the very fresh Fedora 11 machine, I'm
> still working at getting it to connect to the puppet server which is
> on this machine. I needed to clean up some of my local DNS zone
> files. I've gotten sloppy over the years and I don't do DNS every
> day. So I also had to read carefully about CNAME records. The 10th
> time is the charm. Tomorrow success will be mine, I hope.

;-)

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