booting up/installing linux...

[bruce]

ok ed...

i'm curious... can you walk me through the basic steps to take a vanilla
system, with no floppy/cd drive and get it to load up via ethernet/internet,
from a remote server??

i have a system..
i turn it on...
and then what do i do..??

thanks...

bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org]
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 5:54 PM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: booting up/installing linux...


On 11/14/2004 05:34 PM, bruce wrote:

> i have a generic question regarding the installation/bootup process for
> linux. is there a way to have a motherboard install/bootup linux from a
> network connection?

Yup - it's known as a PXE boot.  The DHCP server transfers control to
another server (or it can be the DHCP server itself) which does a
kickstart-based install.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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