Booting from Network

[grial]

Hello everybody!

I need to install Fedora on many PC's from network. Is it possible to boot those PC's from network and install Fedora from NFS ? If so is there any HOWTO on that subject?

Thanks in advance!

[ostehamster]

Hey grial

A guide from fedoranews.org
http://fedoranews.org/dowen/nfsinstall/

regards
Christoffer

[Jman]

If you have many similar machines, try using kickstart to automate the process of installing them.

There is a graphical kickstart generator in System Tools > Kickstart. Also the anaconda installer generated a kickstart file at /root/anaconda-ks.cfg.

The documentation is in the /usr/share/doc/redhat-config-kickstart-2.4.2 directory.

[grial]

Thanks for your answers!

The thing is that I would like the computers to boot from LAN as well, i.e. not to use any diskettes during the installation. ( since there is no driver for my network card on drivers diskette)
Is that possible to boot from LAN?

[ostehamster]

You have to make a server, that runs a service to this. I think it is called TFTP.

There is a guide for it, on gentoo's or debian's homepage, I know nothing about it.

[Jman]

To boot the install from the network, you'll need some hardware that supports network booting, tftp (a very simple ftp), and dhcp. This howto has got the details but no explaination. Follow it but substitute the vmlinux and initrd.img files from the images/pxeboot directory of your Fedora CD. You will need to put your install images somewhere. I think you can put the ISOs on a ftp, http, or nfs server and specify network install when the installer starts.

I haven't done this, but it looks interesting.