Installing via Network without a CD (was Re: Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1)

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Tue Jan 25 03:15:03 UTC 2005


William Hooper wrote:

>> But I'm not quite clear with your method
>> how I would transfer the material to the hard disk. (Remember that I only
>> have one PCMCIA slot, which I would be using for the Fedora Rescue CD.)
>> As far as I could see, I could not remove this CD while linux was running
>> (whereas I could remove the tomsrtbt CD).
> 
> If you are using Disc 1 in "rescue" mode you don't need to remove the CD.
> When you reboot to do the install you are using the hard drive, so your
> PCMCIA slot would be occupied by the NIC.

But how do I transfer anything to the hard disk without removing the CD?

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