Robert L Cochran wrote:
Right, and you can install over NFS: put the iso image in a directory on
a different Linux machine, export that directory over NFS, and then use
the rescue CD to start the installation with. Specify "NFS image" as the
installation type when you come to that screen.
Have you actually /done that/ with anything newser than FC6? Because I
posted a while ago here that I couldn't make it work, had verified that
both the http and nfs access worked, and a number of people agreed that
it hasn't worked recently because it's still trying to find stuff on CD
subdirectories of some such.
I took the download URLs right from the http server log, ran them on
another system, and verified that they worked and gave correct. I tried
both the live CD install and the "boot.iso" versions to be sure I had
valid boots.
You can do it over ftp too. I haven't done an ftp install in a while
though.
You can also do it over VNC. I've only done that once and with an early
version of Fedora Core, probably 2 or 3. VNC-based installs seems
unnecssarily complicated to me.
Why bother burning DVD media, if you can do it over the network or on a
hard drive they way Jeff suggests?
Because recently the network install only seems to work if you rsync the
whole tree and create a repository.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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