laptop install without flopy disk
Arindam Dey
adey at komnas.com
Wed Jan 7 06:33:22 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:26, David L Norris wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 02:37, Arindam Dey wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity how come nobody suggested network boot or did I
> > miss a few posts? Given a decent network card pxe boot should be able to
> > boot up and install provided a properly configured dhcp server is
> > available on the network without the aid of a floppy or cd.
>
> That's certainly a possibility. I wasn't sure he had another system
> available with the required network services. Probably overkill if he
> doesn't already have it setup since it requires DHCP, TFTP, and NFS.
> However, Fedora Core 1 comes with a nice tool (redhat-config-netboot) to
> help setup a host for network installations and diskless clients.
I see. Thanks for pointing out the redhat-config-netboot did not see
that one. I am still doing everything manually. But ain't that the
best.
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Arindam Dey
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