network install of fc5 t2 possible?

Phil Savoie psavoie1783 at rogers.com
Mon Feb 6 10:29:37 UTC 2006


Hi Cam,

I have not tried FC5 yet but with all other FC distros, once you throw in the 
CD and boot, at the linux boot prompt you can try "linux askmethod" without 
the quotes.  This has brought up a network install in the past.

Hope this helps.

Phil

On Monday 06 February 2006 05:09, Cam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a machine which seems to have an unreliable CDROM drive, it has a
> sufficient level of read errors to consistently fail a CD based install,
> even when the media has been checked and verified on another machine. I
> was trying to find out how to do a network install but couldn't find any
> relevant documentation. The GUI doesn't hint at the possibility of
> network install. Is a network install still possible with FC5 t2, and
> how would I go about triggering it (the server side is not a problem)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Cam
>
> --
> camilo at mesias.co.uk                                                 <--




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