[TriLUG] Network install question

[Cristóbal Palmer]

http://garp.metalab.unc.edu/kickstarting-instructions.pdf

Apologies for the home-brew cert.

The above is a writeup that assumes you have a kickstart file to work
with, but you can use the instructions to boot _without_ the kickstart
file and just do a normal interactive install, having pulled the media
form an NFS mount. Read the whole thing through and ask me or the list
if you have any questions.

Basically what the instructions tell you how to do is prepare a USB
stick to be bootable so that you can kickstart with just the USB stick
and an NFS export or http sources.

Hope this helps,
CMP

On 4/28/07, Nicholas Chapel <nicholas.chapel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm an almost total Linux n00b, and am facing a bit of a dilemma with
> regard to an installation.  I'm attempting to install Linux on a
> slightly vintage PC which has a CD-ROM drive, but cannot read DVDs. I
> want to install a distro (CentOS 6) that I've downloaded and burned onto
> a bootable DVD, and I would really rather not download and burn six
> separate CD images of the same distro for the sake of this one computer.
> I do have a bootable CD of Damn Small Linux, however, that will boot
> just fine on the old PC. Would it be possible for me to put the DVD in
> my desktop machine, share it via NFS, boot the old computer using my DSL
> CD, mount the NFS share, and manually invoke the installer? I can figure
> out how to create and mount the NFS share, but how would I invoke the
> installation via that share? And if this /*/isn't* possible (or isn't
> the easiest way to go about the task), how would I best achieve the
> installation without ripping a DVD drive out of another computer and
> slapping it in the old box?  Any help or advice would be appreciated.
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