summary of CD-less installation options for FC3, and a question

[Paul Howarth]

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.