Re: installation

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 01:33 +0000, csm moongroup com wrote:
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> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Ken Snider said:
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> KS>csm moongroup com wrote:
> KS>| On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Ed Wilts said:
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Cool... well...
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> 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. 

actually cds will work too! Or even hard disk install, just put the isos
on your harddisk.

the original mail was about not *booting* from cd...