FC2 install via FTP

[Sergio fernandez]

Cheers for all your help.  I will try this later on today.



On 1 Jul 2004, at 15:23, Phil Schaffner wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 09:28 -0400, Yang Xiao wrote:
>> Hi,
>> You should look into kickstart.
>> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ 
>> ch-kickst
>> art2.html
>>
>> However, for FC2 you will still need to get the CD booting work  
>> because
>> unless you use PXE boot, you still need a kickstart boot CDROM,  
>> there's no
>> kickstart boot floppy for FC2.
>
> It is true that there is no kickstart boot floppy, but related issues
> and methods of booting can be found frequently in the list archives.
> Here's one possibility...
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg06108.html
>
> This technique allows you to use GRUB to boot the installer from the
> local disk.  Can then do network (FTP, NFS, ...) or hard disk install
> from ISO images.
>
> OTOH, may want to explore BIOS options and device  
> configuration/ordering
> (should be able to boot fr0m a correctly configured CD-ROM drive unless
> it is a VERY old machine), correct CD burning (burn the image, not the
> file containing the image; good media; slower burn speed; ...) before
> giving up on CD install.  All these issues are also frequent topics in
> the list archives.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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