bootable CD or diskette for FC3, how can i do it?

Stuart J. Browne sjbrowne at bluebottle.com
Sun Oct 30 22:36:12 UTC 2005


> can i boot form CD 1 of FC3 and when I get the "boot> " wirte :
>
> boot> linux ks=http://some.server/ks.cfg  ip=1.2.3.4 
> netmask=255.255.255.128 gateway=1.2.3.1 dns=1.2.3.2

You said you have a DHCP server, why not use it?  anyway..

> and after take the CD out, because i suppose that he will take the 
> packages that I specified inside the ks.cfg  from the http server?

I can't remember if it tries to access the boot media again, but it will 
take the packages from the source defined in the ks.cfg file, where ever it 
came from, i.e.  I used to use a HTTP ks, with NFS packages.

> i have many servers to do the same, so I think i will put everything in 
> the http server, with different ks.cfg

*nod* good.

> do i need to have all of the packages in the same directory?

There are two ways.  Yes, one is to put all the packages in the Fedora/RPMS/ 
structure (as it appears on the CD's), so all the RPM's end up in the same 
directory.  The other involves using ISO files, but that isn't available for 
all file-transfer methods.

Reading the documentation on setting up a KS server would help:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-kickstart2.html 
(part 8+9) and 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-begininstall-net.html.

>> >4. is it possible to do the kickstart installation with a diskette? if
>>yes, how?
>>
>>It's possible to put the kickstart file on a floppy, but you can't boot
>>from one as the install images have grown too large in recent releases.

What I did was to create a custom bootable CD with update network and IO 
drivers on it for my systems, but I was using dynamically generated ks 
configurations, and DHCP in order to automate the entire process.

>>An alternative I'd recommend looking into if you'll be doing a lot of
>>installs is network booting, where all the configuration can live on the
>>server and there's no need to create custom floppies or CDs per host or
>>per subnet.

bkx 




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