Re: installation

[csm moongroup com]

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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Ken Snider said:

KS>csm moongroup com wrote:
KS>| On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Ed Wilts said:
KS>|
KS>| EW>That sounds cool!  So once he boots off that kernel, where does the
KS>| EW>anaconda get loaded from?  Is that in the initrd?
KS>|
KS>| It comes from a network install point.
KS>
KS>Basically, a normal PXE installation merely installs the vmlinuz/initrd,
KS>that's it. the initrd has anaconda inside, which is network-aware and pulls
KS>down the next stage.
KS>
KS>no one says the vmlinuz/initrd must be served from PXE, they can come from
KS>anywhere that syslinux can run.

Cool... well...

The point I was making is that the technique I described does not 
require a PXE server at all... a simple NFS/FTP/HTTP exported network 
install point is all that is required. 

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