Re: CD-less network installation ?

[Louis Laborde <llaborde cup hp com>]

Tom Diehl wrote:
> 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,

The problem is, there is no images/pxeboot directory in the ia64 distribution.
Does is mean it is not possible or is there a way to do it using some type of
EFI boot loader?

Thanks.

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