How can I convert my debian machine to Fedora?

Colin Charles byte at aeon.com.my
Tue Apr 26 22:50:12 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 20:38 -0400, Ken Young wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I'm trying to get Fedora running on an MVME 2700 single board computer.
> This little board has a 750 PowerPC processor.   I've got Debian 3.1

750 would be a G3 based one?
/me is trying to remember running off memory

> running happily atop the 2.6.11.7 kernel.   It runs like a champ, but I'd
> like to try running Fedora instead of Debian.   This single board computer
> (we've actually got ~35 of them) has no CDROM drive, and I had to do
> quite a bit of horsing around with the kernel configuration to get it
> to boot anyway (via NFS), so there's no way for me to just boot off of the
> iso image CDROMs and install Fedora normally.   Is there any way I can

You could use tftpboot from the OF directly, no? Then use the regular
Fedora ISOs

> Is there any way to do a network install without first booting off a
> CDROM?

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