On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 15:05 +0530, saurabh daptardar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > On 13 May 2005 08:23:49 -0000, manish kumar
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I want to install FC3 but I wanted it to be done online. I was not able to
> find anything on "http://fedora.redhat.com/"; which can guide me to install
> it online. If anybody of you know how to do that, then please tell me how to
> proceed.
> >
>
> Steps for network installation
> 1) The entire distribution should be on the server
> 2) Copy the files from pxeboot directory to your local machine
> (initrd.imgand kernel)
> 3) Add entry to grub.conf and boot using these files
> 4) Installation process begins. Specify the URL of the distribution
> ftp://ftp.server.com/.../..../os
You don't really have to have the os directory. You can leave the ISO
images in a directory and use NFS method to install and point to the
directory holding the ISO images. FC installer will mount the ISO
images directly.
You can copy the kernel and initrd image from the images/boot.iso.
If you have running linux distro and NFS server with fedora ISO images,
# mount -o loop /nfs/path/to/FC3-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/cdrom
# mount -o loop /mnt/cdrom/images/boot.iso /mnt/cdrom2
# cp /mnt/cdrom2/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/FC3-install-kernel
# cp /mnt/cdrom2/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/FC3-install-initrd
# umount /mnt/cdrom2
# umount /mnt/cdrom
Now edit grub.conf to add an entry for FC3 installer entry
title FC3 installer
kernel /boot/FC3-install-kernel ramdisk_size=8192
initrd /boot/FC3-install-initrd
Now you can reboot and start the FC3 installation from the NFS server.
If you have exploded all ISO images and have os directory on a server,
you can also use http/ftp methods for installation.
Amitay.
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