I had high hopes for FC5, damn...
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Wed May 10 12:58:33 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 03:00, Reg Clemens wrote:
> > >
> > > I've personally installed using an external hard drive before. So I can
> > > verify that works. I haven't tried the others but they're still
> > > available options on the boot CD so I have to assume they're still valid.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, well Id decided that the next try would be HardDisk (to the first machine)
> > and then FTP to the rest, I was just wanted to put my complaint down on the
> > list, and see if others were having the same problem. Just seems like a
> > silly change.
>
> NFS is really the easy way to go if it isn't your first
> linux install. Just download the iso images to an nfs-exported
> directory, burn only the first disk and boot from it with
> 'linux askmethod' at the boot prompt. Then pick nfs as
> the method and fill in the server / directory info.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell at gmail.com
>
>
No need to burn the first CD. In the long run, it's much easier to setup
a pxeboot/tftp setup and boot from the network...
Gilboa
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