Installing via Network without a CD (was Re: Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1)
Aleksandar Milivojevic
amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Tue Jan 25 16:17:11 UTC 2005
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>
> So, you have several options listed above. Go and play ;-)
Oh, yeah. One option I forgot. Take disk out of laptop. There are
(cheap) adapters to connect those tiny laptop IDE hard drives to normal
IDE controller in your desktop.
If you have adapter, or you can borrow it from somewhere, or decide to
buy it, from there on, you have two options.
1) copy install CDs to hard drive, return disk back into laptop, and
boot with "linux askmethod" and choose "hard drive" when it asks you for
installation method. make sure not to destroy partition that contains
copy of install CDs during installation ;-)
2) simply install with disk connected to your desktop. you might need
to boot off rescue CD once you return disk into laptop and edit
grub.conf (or lilo.conf), fstab and/or modprobe.conf. possibly also
reinstall boot loader (grub or lilo) and/or rebuild initrd image. if
your hard disk is recognized as /dev/hda when in your laptop, and if you
place it as primary master (/dev/hda) in your desktop, it should simply
boot without need to touch anything once placed into laptop (provided
IDE controller in your laptop isn't something very exotic).
To copy insatll CDs to disk, copy first CD as-is. The remaining three
CDs, copy only content of Fedora/RPM directory into existing Fedora/RPM
directory (from copy of first disk). Installation is smart enough to
detect that all RPMs are present in single directory (and not split on
multiple CDs). If you have install DVD, it is even simpler. Just copy
hole thing to disk as-is.
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Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> Pollard Banknote Limited
Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place
Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7
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