One installation CD

[Martín Marqués]

El Sáb 21 May 2005 10:04, Rahul Sundaram escribió:
> Hi
> 
> >
> >How hard would it be to have an extra CD image with the distro that will 
only 
> >have the necesarry things to start the installation, partition, run fdisk, 
> >pass throught all the installation configuration, and when the packages are 
> >needed, just download them from the net.
> >
> This functionality has existed for a long long time. use the netboot 
> image and use "linux askmethod".  

Done this several times.

> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/images/
> This is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux guide but the same applies for 
> Fedora too
> 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/s1-begininstall-ftp.html. 

Yes, but I still have to download 670Mb of the first CD. The idea is to have a 
CD image that doesn't have more then 100Mb (like the rescue CD). How hard is 
it to make an extra image, just like CD1, but with default installation 
method one of: network, www, ftp, nfs, etc., and no other .rpm packages?

The other thing I put in the mail was the ability to install from a yam 
server. Maybe I haven't read enough yet. If I put the URL of the yam server 
in the www download of the installation, will the yam server become a simple 
www mirror of FC3.

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