about hardware information

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 18:55:57 UTC 2007


On 9/27/07, Aldo Foot <lunixer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > >
> > Add to that that you can just get the rescue CD image, and use that
> > to do a network install. You can put the DVD image on the hard
> > drive, and install from that. Do you really want to get into the
> > more exotic install methods? Remember, you can install Fedora on a
> > machine that does not have an optical drive. (PXE boot, USB "pen
> > drive" boot, etc.)
> >
> > Mikkel
> > --
> >
> >
> >
>
> Agreed.
> The only CD I ever use is the boot cd, I've never used an actual DVD to
> install.
>
> ~Aldo.

Works when you have the networking bandwidth, i.e. high download quota
(10s of GB per month) and speed megabits vs. Hz.

I haven't tried this recently. If I recall, each boot/rescue CD is
specific to a given release. So if I boot an older release rescue CD
(e.g. FC3), type "askmethod", select NFS, and point the URL to a  F7
repository the install would fail. Does that problem still exist?
Would be nice if there was a reusable network installer CD. It would
keep old CDs from filling the landfills.




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