Ben Smith wrote: > > Bill, > > Unfortunately glbf doesn't support network booting at the moment. It > may in the future, once some of the other design goals have been achieved. > > If you can get Fedora's boot.iso image onto a fat/32 partition on the > hard drive, the current version of glbf will let you boot from that > image, and initiate a network install using the Fedora installer. I > think this would be the easiest thing to do. The HOWTO document > explains the process. Basically, you would rename the boot.iso image to > glbf.iso and place it in the root (topmost) directory of the partition. > > Unfortunately, though, I have never done an install specifically this > way. My only concern would be whether the important bits from the > boot.iso image are copied to memory so that the image can be overwritten > during the install. Perhaps someone with knowledge of the Fedora > installer could answer that question. If not, you would have to create > a separate partition to contain the boot.iso image, and make sure not to > format it during the install. OK I've got that working. Needed a small VFAT partition but that's no problem and I think it's fairly installer proof as it tends to leave non Linux partitions alone by default. Now if only I could get the NFS share to be visible :-( A different problem, something amiss with PCMCIA NIC's and the installer. > > If that option is not feasible, and you do not find another solution, > the next version of glbf will likely support booting from USB memory > sticks. There is a Fedora install image for those that would let you > bootstrap to a network install if necessary. Yes I saw the FC2 support for that, no help to me though as the laptop doesn't have USB. > > -Ben > Dees Consulting > www.deesconsulting.com > Thanks Bill Somerville
