installing FC3 over the network...

bruce bedouglas at earthlink.net
Thu Apr 28 22:06:57 UTC 2005


hi...

took a look at what you provided. i can't see how this gets me to being able
to remotely use the fedora install gui on my server.

remember, i'd like to install fedora on the remote server, using my system
to remotely install FC on the remote system.

-bruce


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Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:05 PM
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Subject: Re: installing FC3 over the network...


On 4/28/05, linux.whiz at gmail.com <linux.whiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/28/05, bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > the system already has RH8 on it...
> >
> > it can easily be reconnected to my network... but i'm not sure what to
do
> > after that...
> >
> > given the difference betwen RH8/FC3 with partitions/file types/etc.. i
> > wanted to use the gui..
> >
> > is it possible to do this remotely?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > bruce
>
> It can be done.  Copy the files vmlinuz and initrd.img from the
> isolinux directory on CD1 of Fedora Core into /boot on the RH8 box.
> Modify the /boot/grub/grub.conf so that it has the following stanza in
> it:
>
> title Install FC
>         kernel /vmlinuz
>         initrd /initrd.img
>
> Then reboot your RH8 machine.  You will get a menu choice at the GRUB
> menu to install FC.  Choose that, and the installer will start.  You
> can point it to a network resource (NFS, http, ftp, whatever you set
> up) and go to town.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Thomas

Whoops - make that:

title Install FC
          root (hd0,1)
          kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192
          initrd /initrd.img

Sorry about that.  I left out the root (hd0,1) line.  That line means
that the partition mounted as /boot is on hard drive 0 and it is the
first partition.

Thomas

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