Single Disk Network Install - Not Network Boot
Hey, I am trying to do an NFS install and would really like to get everything I need to get this to work onto a single diskette (or CD if it's absolutely necessary). I'd like to just pop in a floppy, turn on the machine and have it boot, restart, and be ready to go. As it stands now, I have all the config setup (info file and autoinst.xml), but I need to swap 3 floppies first for modules and stuff. Can I get these all on a single disk? I can do this with Redhat's kickstart. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I will eventually need to hand this process off to some less informed individuals who I don't want to have to mess with lots of disks,etc. Thanks a lot, Paul
Hi, single floppy disk network install is not possible. You need at least 2 floppies. You need a CD for this. And by the way, even with rh kickstart you cant do that in recent releases. Anas discip@pjm.com wrote:
Hey, I am trying to do an NFS install and would really like to get everything I need to get this to work onto a single diskette (or CD if it's absolutely necessary). I'd like to just pop in a floppy, turn on the machine and have it boot, restart, and be ready to go. As it stands now, I have all the config setup (info file and autoinst.xml), but I need to swap 3 floppies first for modules and stuff. Can I get these all on a single disk? I can do this with Redhat's kickstart. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I will eventually need to hand this process off to some less informed individuals who I don't want to have to mess with lots of disks,etc.
Thanks a lot, Paul
Hi, it's possible. You have to create a grub-bootdisk that reads the installation kernel from the network and starts autoyast installation then. So you only need the right drivers compiled into grub. If you have computers with new eepro100 versions you have to patch the sources to recognize the new PCI IDs. Hope this helps, Dierk Anas Nashif wrote:
Hi, single floppy disk network install is not possible. You need at least 2 floppies. You need a CD for this. And by the way, even with rh kickstart you cant do that in recent releases.
Anas
discip@pjm.com wrote:
Hey, I am trying to do an NFS install and would really like to get everything I need to get this to work onto a single diskette (or CD if it's absolutely necessary). I'd like to just pop in a floppy, turn on the machine and have it boot, restart, and be ready to go. As it stands now, I have all the config setup (info file and autoinst.xml), but I need to swap 3 floppies first for modules and stuff. Can I get these all on a single disk? I can do this with Redhat's kickstart. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I will eventually need to hand this process off to some less informed individuals who I don't want to have to mess with lots of disks,etc.
Thanks a lot, Paul
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?? Wouldn't this be network boot? Anas Dierk Fröhling wrote:
Hi, it's possible. You have to create a grub-bootdisk that reads the installation kernel from the network and starts autoyast installation then. So you only need the right drivers compiled into grub. If you have computers with new eepro100 versions you have to patch the sources to recognize the new PCI IDs. Hope this helps,
Dierk
Anas Nashif wrote:
Hi, single floppy disk network install is not possible. You need at least 2 floppies. You need a CD for this. And by the way, even with rh kickstart you cant do that in recent releases.
Anas
discip@pjm.com wrote:
Hey, I am trying to do an NFS install and would really like to get everything I need to get this to work onto a single diskette (or CD if it's absolutely necessary). I'd like to just pop in a floppy, turn on the machine and have it boot, restart, and be ready to go. As it stands now, I have all the config setup (info file and autoinst.xml), but I need to swap 3 floppies first for modules and stuff. Can I get these all on a single disk? I can do this with Redhat's kickstart. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I will eventually need to hand this process off to some less informed individuals who I don't want to have to mess with lots of disks,etc.
Thanks a lot, Paul
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Anas Nashif
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Dierk Fröhling
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discip@pjm.com