trying to setup for a remote installation

[Philip Rowlands]

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On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, bruce wrote:

>still foggy!
>
>in looking over sites from google... ii'm not sure how you can simply modify
>the grub.conf (i'm assuming that's what you meant by bootup) to do the
>remote upgrade via VNC.

/usr/share/doc/anaconda-10.*/command-line.txt says:

vnc             Enable vnc-based installation. You will need to connect
                to the machine using a vnc client application.

anaconda arguments go on the kernel command line; try GRUB's
command-line editing while testing.

>if i place the fedora isos on a httpd server, then what?

/usr/share/doc/anaconda-10.*/install-methods.txt says:

- FTP/HTTP (from a directory of loopback-mounted ISOs)
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  Summary:
      Pulls files from tree via FTP.  Looks in 'disc1/' directory to contain
      files from CD #1, 'disc2/' for CD #2, etc.  These can be created on the
      server by loopback mounting the ISO images into these directories under
      the directory made available to ftp.

so it's slightly more complicated that serving the plain ISOs, as they
have to be loopback-mounted. (NFS-exported ISOs don't, if that's
easier.)


Cheers,
Phil