network install of fc5 t2 possible?

[Jason Montleon]

Yes you can, and yes it works well.  I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with a 
completely dead cd-rom drive.  Despite that I am able to boot the machine 
and install Fedora on it.  Obviously without a CD-ROM drive I need a 
completely alternate boot method.  Enter this image:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/images/diskboot.img

This may come in useful for you, if you are having trouble even booting from 
CD.  Use dd or rawrite to put the image on a USB pen drive, or something 
similar (in my case a second HDD in the Media Bay since the Inspiron 8000 is 
incapable of booting to USB....) and you can start the install and go about 
it by any means necessary.

If you can still boot off the CD you can probably do 'linux askmethod' when 
booting to bring up the other options, or download this iamge: 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/images/boot.iso 
and burn to CD in order to boot and go about installation.

Cpl Montleon
USMC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cam" <camilo at mesias.co.uk>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
<fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 7:09 PM
Subject: network install of fc5 t2 possible?


> Hi,
>
> I have a machine which seems to have an unreliable CDROM drive, it has a 
> sufficient level of read errors to consistently fail a CD based install, 
> even when the media has been checked and verified on another machine. I 
> was trying to find out how to do a network install but couldn't find any 
> relevant documentation. The GUI doesn't hint at the possibility of network 
> install. Is a network install still possible with FC5 t2, and how would I 
> go about triggering it (the server side is not a problem)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Cam
>
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