I had high hopes for FC5, damn...

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 08:44 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:58, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > No need to burn the first CD. In the long run, it's much easier to setup
> > a pxeboot/tftp setup and boot from the network...
> 
> Is there a way to do this that isn't version-specific?  With
> the CDs I've always had to boot from the exact version
> that I wanted to install and I normally have several
> NFS-installable copies on line at once (different fedora's,
> centos, k12tsp, etc.).  And I have a default network boot
> for ltsp thin clients.  Is there a way to set up a network
> grub boot or something similar that could give a menu for
> the load wanted?
> 

My bootpxe can install FC3, FC4 (i386/x86_64), FC5 (i386/x86_64) and
CentOS 4 (x86_64).
Once you setup the initial bootpxe configuration, you can have it handle
multiple concurrent configurations. (You'll just need the vmlinuz +
initrd image for each kernel pair + ISO files)

Gilboa