hey, thanks everybody for the help,actually i don't have the iso images of FC3 what i have is one DVD containing FC3( bootable cd with fc3 on it non iso). I thought for HTTP installation i will create a link to a directory in /var/www/ for /media/cdrecorder. I will burn one cd with boot.iso image and either through http or NFS will install the FC3.I have 10 desktops 5 Intel P4 and 5 AMD 1.66 Ghz. Please correct me if i am wrong in installing the FC3 through network installation method. Thanks for the reply. Thanks & Regards Ankush On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:41:26 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 08:52 -0500, Hacksaw wrote: > > >Both ways are possible: > > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-instal > > l-guide/s1-steps-network-installs.html#S2-STEPS-NETWORK-INSTALL-ISO > > > > Huh! Okay. > > > > I was warming up to the idea until I got to the note that you could only have > > one release (and one variant? what does that mean?) in the directory. > > I think "variants" means like the "WS" and "AS" versions of RHEL. > > There's nothing to stop you exporting a directory /software containing: > > /software/fc3 > /software/fc2 > /software/rhel4-ws > /software/rhel4-as > > etc., each subdirectory containing the ISO images for that distribution > (and only that distribution). > > > If you could have an iso directory, and had a general tool that could go and > > give you a menu of OSes to install, that'd be kind of cool, speaking from the > > Large Implementation Systems Administration point of view. > > You could create a bootable USB thumb drive with the kernels and initrds > for all of these OS's installers available in a menu, enabling you to > choose which OS to install from your NFS server. I've done this myself. > > > Oh well, I guess it saves having to teach people to mount iso's, but I think > > that's a dubious trade off. Perhaps they are reaching for something with that > > feature. > > It saves a step. And if you have a server with lots of ISOs like the one > I described above, it saves you a loop device per ISO too, which could > be important. > > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
