On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 07:33, Arindam Dey wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:26, David L Norris wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 02:37, Arindam Dey wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity how come nobody suggested network boot or did I > > > miss a few posts? Given a decent network card pxe boot should be able to > > > boot up and install provided a properly configured dhcp server is > > > available on the network without the aid of a floppy or cd. > > > > That's certainly a possibility. I wasn't sure he had another system > > available with the required network services. Probably overkill if he > > doesn't already have it setup since it requires DHCP, TFTP, and NFS. > > However, Fedora Core 1 comes with a nice tool (redhat-config-netboot) to > > help setup a host for network installations and diskless clients. > > I see. Thanks for pointing out the redhat-config-netboot did not see > that one. I am still doing everything manually. But ain't that the > best. Yes, that was exactly my point: no other way to boot but hdd. I never set up a host box with all required network services since i never needed. Until now. ;) Thanks for all help guys. E.
