Timothy Murphy <gayleard@eircom.net> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <div>max wrote: >>>> Has anyone successfully installed Fedora-8 by PXE? >>>> I get the error >>>> "Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) >>>> for repository anaconda-base-200711021053.i386". >>>> >>>> Any suggestions or elucidation welcome. >>>> >>> Are you using cobbler? >> >> No. >> I saw some mention of cobbler, but I didn't pursue it, >> as I didn't see any clear description of what it did. > http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ I did in fact read this. But as I said I did not feel I knew enough about what cobbler did after reading it to want to install cobbler. Eg, what exactly is a "boot server"? Is it an alternative to grub? Will it affect the way my computer normally boots? Why should one need to install another program in order for PXEboot to work? </div> <div>The boot server is the [remote] machine from which the PXE client downloads the initial boot code. The boot server can also be the jumpstart server. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </div></BLOCKQUOTE>