installing FC3 over the network...

[bruce]

hi...

is there a way for me to do a graphical install of FC3 on a system that has
no CD drive. I have the isos for the FC3 install CDs, and i can copy them
onto another system in my network.

I'd like to be able to use the graphical installation to upgrade the
system...

any ideas/pointers as to how to go about doing this?

thanks

bruce
[e-mail]

[Stuart Sears]

On Thursday 28 April 2005 18:06, bruce wrote:
> hi...
>
> is there a way for me to do a graphical install of FC3 on a system that has
> no CD drive. I have the isos for the FC3 install CDs, and i can copy them
> onto another system in my network.
>
> I'd like to be able to use the graphical installation to upgrade the
> system...
>
> any ideas/pointers as to how to go about doing this?

is the system you wish to install capable of network booting?
or can it boot from a USB key?

[bruce]

the system already has RH8 on it...

it can easily be reconnected to my network... but i'm not sure what to do
after that...

given the difference betwen RH8/FC3 with partitions/file types/etc.. i
wanted to use the gui..

is it possible to do this remotely?

thanks

bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Sears [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:11 AM
To: [e-mail]; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: installing FC3 over the network...

On Thursday 28 April 2005 18:06, bruce wrote:
> hi...
>
> is there a way for me to do a graphical install of FC3 on a system that

has
> no CD drive. I have the isos for the FC3 install CDs, and i can copy them
> onto another system in my network.
>
> I'd like to be able to use the graphical installation to upgrade the
> system...
>
> any ideas/pointers as to how to go about doing this?

is the system you wish to install capable of network booting?
or can it boot from a USB key?

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On 4/28/05, bruce  wrote:
> the system already has RH8 on it...
>
> it can easily be reconnected to my network... but i'm not sure what to do
> after that...
>
> given the difference betwen RH8/FC3 with partitions/file types/etc.. i
> wanted to use the gui..
>
> is it possible to do this remotely?
>
> thanks
>
> bruce

It can be done.  Copy the files vmlinuz and initrd.img from the
isolinux directory on CD1 of Fedora Core into /boot on the RH8 box. 
Modify the /boot/grub/grub.conf so that it has the following stanza in
it:

title Install FC
        kernel /vmlinuz
        initrd /initrd.img

Then reboot your RH8 machine.  You will get a menu choice at tge GRUB
menu to install FC.  Choose that, and the installer will start.  You
can point it to a network resource (NFS, http, ftp, whatever you set
up) and go to town.

Hope this helps.
Thomas

On 4/28/05, [e-mail]  wrote:
> On 4/28/05, bruce  wrote:
> > the system already has RH8 on it...
> >
> > it can easily be reconnected to my network... but i'm not sure what to do
> > after that...
> >
> > given the difference betwen RH8/FC3 with partitions/file types/etc.. i
> > wanted to use the gui..
> >
> > is it possible to do this remotely?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > bruce
>
> It can be done.  Copy the files vmlinuz and initrd.img from the
> isolinux directory on CD1 of Fedora Core into /boot on the RH8 box.
> Modify the /boot/grub/grub.conf so that it has the following stanza in
> it:
>
> title Install FC
>         kernel /vmlinuz
>         initrd /initrd.img
>
> Then reboot your RH8 machine.  You will get a menu choice at the GRUB
> menu to install FC.  Choose that, and the installer will start.  You
> can point it to a network resource (NFS, http, ftp, whatever you set
> up) and go to town.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Thomas

Whoops - make that:

title Install FC
          root (hd0,1)
          kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192
          initrd /initrd.img

Sorry about that.  I left out the root (hd0,1) line.  That line means
that the partition mounted as /boot is on hard drive 0 and it is the
first partition.

Thomas

[bruce]

hi...

took a look at what you provided. i can't see how this gets me to being able
to remotely use the fedora install gui on my server.

remember, i'd like to install fedora on the remote server, using my system
to remotely install FC on the remote system.

-bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail]
[mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of [e-mail]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:05 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: installing FC3 over the network...

On 4/28/05, [e-mail]  wrote:
> On 4/28/05, bruce  wrote:
> > the system already has RH8 on it...
> >
> > it can easily be reconnected to my network... but i'm not sure what to

do
> > after that...
> >
> > given the difference betwen RH8/FC3 with partitions/file types/etc.. i
> > wanted to use the gui..
> >
> > is it possible to do this remotely?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > bruce
>
> It can be done.  Copy the files vmlinuz and initrd.img from the
> isolinux directory on CD1 of Fedora Core into /boot on the RH8 box.
> Modify the /boot/grub/grub.conf so that it has the following stanza in
> it:
>
> title Install FC
>         kernel /vmlinuz
>         initrd /initrd.img
>
> Then reboot your RH8 machine.  You will get a menu choice at the GRUB
> menu to install FC.  Choose that, and the installer will start.  You
> can point it to a network resource (NFS, http, ftp, whatever you set
> up) and go to town.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Thomas

Whoops - make that:

title Install FC
          root (hd0,1)
          kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192
          initrd /initrd.img

Sorry about that.  I left out the root (hd0,1) line.  That line means
that the partition mounted as /boot is on hard drive 0 and it is the
first partition.

Thomas

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I would look at installing yum and using yum to do this.  I know, not
GUI, but that's a good way to do it.

On 4/28/05, bruce  wrote:
> hi...
>
> took a look at what you provided. i can't see how this gets me to being able
> to remotely use the fedora install gui on my server.
>
> remember, i'd like to install fedora on the remote server, using my system
> to remotely install FC on the remote system.
>
> -bruce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of [e-mail]
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:05 PM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: installing FC3 over the network...
>
> On 4/28/05, [e-mail]  wrote:
> > On 4/28/05, bruce  wrote:
> > > the system already has RH8 on it...
> > >
> > > it can easily be reconnected to my network... but i'm not sure what to
>
> do
> > > after that...
> > >
> > > given the difference betwen RH8/FC3 with partitions/file types/etc.. i
> > > wanted to use the gui..
> > >
> > > is it possible to do this remotely?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > bruce
> >
> > It can be done.  Copy the files vmlinuz and initrd.img from the
> > isolinux directory on CD1 of Fedora Core into /boot on the RH8 box.
> > Modify the /boot/grub/grub.conf so that it has the following stanza in
> > it:
> >
> > title Install FC
> >         kernel /vmlinuz
> >         initrd /initrd.img
> >
> > Then reboot your RH8 machine.  You will get a menu choice at the GRUB
> > menu to install FC.  Choose that, and the installer will start.  You
> > can point it to a network resource (NFS, http, ftp, whatever you set
> > up) and go to town.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> > Thomas
>
> Whoops - make that:
>
> title Install FC
>           root (hd0,1)
>           kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192
>           initrd /initrd.img
>
> Sorry about that.  I left out the root (hd0,1) line.  That line means
> that the partition mounted as /boot is on hard drive 0 and it is the
> first partition.
>
> Thomas
>
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