On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 15:05 +0530, saurabh daptardar wrote:

Hi,

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On 13 May 2005 08:23:49 -0000, manish kumar manish_compbug@rediffmail.com wrote:

I want to install FC3 but I wanted it to be done online. I was not able to

find anything on "http://fedora.redhat.com/" which can guide me to install it online. If anybody of you know how to do that, then please tell me how to proceed.

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Steps for network installation

1. The entire distribution should be on the server
2. Copy the files from pxeboot directory to your local machine

(initrd.imgand kernel) 3) Add entry to grub.conf and boot using these files 4) Installation process begins. Specify the URL of the distribution ftp://ftp.server.com/.../..../os

You don't really have to have the os directory. You can leave the ISO images in a directory and use NFS method to install and point to the directory holding the ISO images. FC installer will mount the ISO images directly.

You can copy the kernel and initrd image from the images/boot.iso.

If you have running linux distro and NFS server with fedora ISO images,

# mount -o loop /nfs/path/to/FC3-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/cdrom # mount -o loop /mnt/cdrom/images/boot.iso /mnt/cdrom2 # cp /mnt/cdrom2/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/FC3-install-kernel # cp /mnt/cdrom2/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/FC3-install-initrd # umount /mnt/cdrom2 # umount /mnt/cdrom

Now edit grub.conf to add an entry for FC3 installer entry

title FC3 installer kernel /boot/FC3-install-kernel ramdisk_size=8192 initrd /boot/FC3-install-initrd

Now you can reboot and start the FC3 installation from the NFS server.

If you have exploded all ISO images and have os directory on a server, you can also use http/ftp methods for installation.

Amitay.