network install of fc5 t2 possible?

[David Timms]

Jason Montleon wrote:

> Yes you can, and yes it works well.  I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with 
> a completely dead cd-rom drive.  Despite that I am able to boot the 
> machine and install Fedora on it.  Obviously without a CD-ROM drive I 
> need a completely alternate boot method.  Enter this image:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/images/diskboot.img 
>
>
> This may come in useful for you, if you are having trouble even 
> booting from CD.  Use dd or rawrite to put the image on a USB pen 
> drive, or something similar (in my case a second HDD in the Media Bay 
> since the Inspiron 8000 is incapable of booting to USB....) and you 
> can start the install and go about it by any means necessary.

eg if you already have a booting linux system with grub, get/copy:
diskboot.img and memdisk and setup grub by adding (from memory):
title fedora-install
  kernel /memdisk/memdisk   #which is often /boot/memdisk/memdisk (you 
need to get this as well)
  initrd /memdisk/diskboot.img  #ditto
and use eg hard disk file location

eg2:
if you have an internal server that you can put tftp + dhcp server on, 
use the pxeboot:
vmlinux
initrd.img
and some config (found elsewhere).

eg3 if the CD work enough to boot:
: linux text askmethod
and choose ftp straight from download.fedora.redhat.com and the 
appropriate architecture path.
(although, text mode install fails during retrieving package info at the 
moment. - for me! see 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176492)

DaveT.