[Gllug] Network installs

[Xander D Harkness]

On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 12:01, Andrew Black wrote:
> Hi
> Can someone give me an overview of what network installs are about?
> 
> Reason I ask, I am trying to install onto a machine that I think has a dodgy CD drive.  I was wondering if I could put a linux image on another machine and install it accross my LAN.
I cannot talk for SuSE or debian network installs as I have not done
them.

For Red Hat get the bootnet.img from the net or from CD under images and
create a floppy:

dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0

(if=inputfile of=outputfile)

You can then boot from this floppy image - check that it reports not
errors and successfully writes 2880 sectors (or similar).

If you are installing a laptop you will want the pcmcia.img and
pcmciadd.img and follow as above

RH will install from ftp, nfs or http.

Ensure that all of the files are available; i.e. I have had difficulty
by sharing a cd via http as it believes that the only files available
are on that cd and will skip the rest leaving a botched install.

Copy the first CD to a location and then just copy the RedHat/RPMS
directory for the other disks and then share that.

It is then just a matter of following the prompts as ever :-)

Have fun.

Kind regards
Xander
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> Andrew
> 



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