One installation CD

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Sat May 21 13:04:14 UTC 2005


Hi

>
>How hard would it be to have an extra CD image with the distro that will only 
>have the necesarry things to start the installation, partition, run fdisk, 
>pass throught all the installation configuration, and when the packages are 
>needed, just download them from the net.
>
>  
>
This functionality has existed for a long long time. use the netboot 
image and use "linux askmethod".  
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/images/
This is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux guide but the same applies for 
Fedora too
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/s1-begininstall-ftp.html. 


regards
Rahul





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