[K12OSN] network install from RPMS?
Rob Owens
hick518 at yahoo.com
Wed May 17 01:10:44 UTC 2006
Excellent. I'll give it a try when my laptop arrives
in a couple weeks. Thanks for all the info.
-Rob
--- Ben Nickell <twinprism at athena.physics.isu.edu>
wrote:
>
> Yes
>
>
> My experience is you can only do an NFS install from
> the ISOs, but using
> the RPMs you can install via http or ftp.
>
> What I do is burn the first ISO image,boot from it
> an type 'linux
> askmethod' at the boot prompt. Choose http
> install, make sure it has
> an IP address and point it at the directory where
> you put the RPMs.
>
>
> These links may help.
>
<http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=169466&seqNum=2>
>
>
<http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/>
>
>
>
> Let me know if you need more guidance.
>
> Ben
>
> Rob Owens wrote:
>
> >So the network install pretty much works the same
> >whether you put the isos or the RPMS on your local
> web
> >server? (I hope that's what you're telling me,
> >because that's what I was hoping to hear!)
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >-Rob
> >
> >--- Ben Nickell <twinprism at athena.physics.isu.edu>
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Rob Owens wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I know you can do a network install using the iso
> >>>files. Can you do a network install using the
> >>>
> >>>
> >>RPMS?
> >>
> >>
> >>>It would be nice to be able to use the same set
> of
> >>>files for both a local repository and for network
> >>>installs.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks
> >>>
> >>>-Rob
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Yes you can.. at least in previous versions
> >>
> >>You either need to extract the RPMs off the CD's
> or
> >>mirror a network
> >>repository. (using rsync or something similar)
> >>
> >>If you are running apache, and but the files in a
> >>directory under it's
> >>document root, (usually /var/www/html) you can do
> a
> >>http install from
> >>there. You can also do installs via ftp, but it
> has
> >>been since redhat 6
> >>since I've done that, so the memory is fuzzy.
> >>
> >>That might get you started. I can give more
> specific
> >>instructions or dig
> >>up some links tomorrow if that is not enough.
> >>
> >>Best Regards,
> >>Ben
> >>
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