Re: CD-less network installation ?

[Tom Diehl <tdiehl rogueind com>]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Louis Laborde wrote:

> 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?

AAH sorry I have only tested x86. I seem to remember something going by about
doing this with some type of EFI boot loader but I do not remember where. Sorry.

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