Re: CD-less network installation ?

[Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com>]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Louis Laborde wrote:

> I installed 2.9.5AS by booting on a CD-ROM (image boot.iso)
> and doing the rest via NFS.

Yes, especially if the machine will pxeboot.

> I was wondering if it was possible to avoid this CD-ROM and
> configure a bootp/dhpcp server instead? If this is possible,
> what boot image should the server send.

In the images/pxe directory of the first cd there is a kernel and initrd.img
there that can be used for booting the machine via pxeboot amd pxelinux.

The easiest way to set it up is to use a linux dhcp server and the tftp server
that comes with recent releases of RHL.

HTH,

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