Universal Boot disc and Network install
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Feb 24 16:16:15 UTC 2005
Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> Hello,
> I like to use NFS install, as it minimize the need of burning CDs to install
> distro.
> However, as far as I know, you still need to burn the disc 1 iso of the
> distro, to boot the system from, then specify the NFS install. So if I want
> to install FC 1, FC 2, FC 3, FC 4 (beta), RHEL 3, RHEL 4, I still need to
> burn 6 disc 1 iso, right ?.
>
> So my question is, is there a way to make like a "universal boot disc" for all
> the Fedora (and Red hat) versions, so that then I can specify the NFS path
> (and probably distro code name for sanity check), and then the installer
> (anaconda? ) understand what distro I want to install based on the specified
> NFS path (just look at what distro is available in that mounted fs) and/or
> the specified distro name ?
It's not too hard to do this really. If you look in the "images"
directories of each distribution's CD1, you should find a "boot.iso". If
you loopback mount that image you can extract from it a kernel and
initrd. These will be different for each distribution.
Grab the kernels and initrds for each distribution (these are the
installer kernels and initrds) and create yourself a boot media (CD, USB
key, whatever) that offers a menu with each distro's kernel/initrd.
You can then use that media to boot the installer for each distro.
Paul.
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