Installing Linux using DHCP/TFTP/pxeboot on a diskless client

[David Malcolm]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 00:14 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 	The last few days, I was playing around and trying to figure out how to
> get Linux (FreeBSD and FC2) onto a client that has neither an
> OS/CDrom/Floppy/USB Boot but has Network Boot Capability.
> 
> Hence I ventured forth and succeeded.
> 
> If anyone's interested, I've written up a small Howto. (something which
> I always Do once I learn something new)
> 
> I've posted it here http://www.livejournal.com/users/lotso/1863.html
> 
> I've not gone and actually written it all the way into the end (meaning,
> finish the installation) and I don't plan to.. since the hard part was
> figuring out how to actually boot the client.
> 
> Appreciate comments.
> 
> I'll convert it into HTML after it's been reviewed by you guys and
> upload it somewhere.
You might want to do it as DocBook and generate the HTML from that.
Have a look here for some pointers:
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/documentation-guide/index.html

Dave