> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M A Young > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:05 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: PXE boot disks > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote: > > > A somewhat silly question, but how does one go about creating a PXE > > boot disk from the /images/pxeboot files since there is no > .img to DD > > to the floppy? Can anyone give me some pointers? > > You don't. A pxe enabled network card is told by the DHCP > server to download the pxelinux.0 file (part of the syslinux > package) which runs and downloads a configuration file and > gives a boot menu, so you don't need a floppy. > > Michael Young > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > If you are looking to do a network install there are a number of kernel params you can pass. When you insert the bootable CD try running this: linux method=http://location/to/your/repo ip=yourip netmask=yournetmask gateway=yourgateway dns=yourdns Method also supports nfs, ftp, a local hard drive, and cdrom. For more info on this check out: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/printthread.php?t=25826 -Mike
