summary of CD-less installation options for FC3, and a question
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Nov 25 13:41:24 UTC 2004
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> a quick summary of a couple different posts describing CD-free
> installation of FC3, in response to an earlier posting asking about
> this by me. (both solutions assume some form of red hat or FC on the
> system already, or at least a grub-controlled install.)
>
> the first response referred to
>
> http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~colohan/docs/fedora_upgrade.html
>
> which describes how to recursively copy everything out of the FC3
> "isolinux/" directory, copy that under /boot, add a new stanza to
> /etc/grub.conf and boot using that. and that seems to work nicely.
>
> a second response was to copy the same files from under the
> "images/pxeboot/" directory and do pretty much the same thing.
> granted that PXE will undoubtedly offer more flexibility, if you're
> doing a simple NFS-based install, is there any reason not to use the
> first solution? just curious.
Using the files from the pxeboot directory just saves you the job of
extracting the kernel and initrd from the ISO image. It's a simpler process,
that's all.
Paul.
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