installing FC4 isos from another linux box...

[bruce]

hi alan...

i have a cd burner on a windows box... right now i have all the iso files on
a windows box. i can easily copy the files to the linux box for the install
process.. i didn't want to go through the issue of creating all the cds if i
could easily do a network install. 

is there a reasonable way to create a "boot cd" from windows, given that i
have all the iso files?

fom your information, it appears that i could do :
 -1) copy the 1st iso file image to a cd
 -2) copy the rescue iso to a cd
 -3) go through the mount process for the 1st cd, 
     extract/copy the boot.img file to the windows box, 
     and copy the image to a boot cd...

this process would seem to get me the boot cd, which would then allow me to
proceed.

so, which approach should i use?

however, i would still have to figure out how to setup the NFS process, and
would need to know how/where to copy the ISO files...

-bruce




-bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan M. Evans [mailto:ame1 at extratech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:07 AM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net
Subject: RE: installing FC4 isos from another linux box...


On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:17, bruce wrote:
> i need them!!!!!

Actually, others on the list suggested NFS install. I've never used this
method, but upon reflection, I think NFS should be easier. You'll still
need boot media for the target machine, however.

> real basic/point by point steps!! and type slow!
> 
> in particular, i also need information regarding the "boot cd" how/where
do
> i need to create this...

Making the boot cd is not difficult. First, you *do* have a cd burner,
right?

I use cdrecord, because I'm sort of old school. There are probably
easier ways of burning simple isos. So before I go into the steps to use
cdrecord, I should ask if you are at all familiar using the file browser
to burn the iso to CD.

I don't use it much, but I seem to remember that it was quite easy to
use. If you drop a blank CD into the drive, then Nautilus should allow
easy writing of an existing iso. Either right-click on the blank CD or
on the iso image that you want to write, I don't recall which. There is
a menu item like "Burn ISO to CD" or something. (Sorry, my FC5 system
hard to get to right now, so I can't test it out and tell you exactly.)

Anyway, the image you want is on the first CD. /images/boot.iso. This
would require that you actually have this directory available, which
would not be the case if the first CD was itself just an iso. You could
just burn the first CD iso. If you really want to make just the boot
image, you need to  mount the first CD iso:

  # mount -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop0 FC5-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/disc1

Of course, replace the iso name and directory so they are appropriate
for you.

At this point you can access the iso as if it were part of your
filesystem:

  # cd /mnt/disc1/images

And there you will find the boot.iso image that you need to burn to CD
for minimal install booting.

If you really want to go through the whole cdrecord thing, then I
suppose I could walk you through that...

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