network install

[Kam Leo]

On 9/26/07, tony.chamberlain at lemko.com <tony.chamberlain at lemko.com> wrote:
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> I install a bunch of CentOS machines.  It gets tiring having to switch CDs
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> (they don't have DVD drive).  I found
> http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-2.1/s1-install-network.html
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> where I believe you can install over  a network.  Anyway I copied everything
> from the 4 CDROMs to
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> /usr/CentOS_Install and made a ks.cfg file and put it there.  But when I
> install CentOS from a CD I don't
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> see where you specify to install from a network rather than from the CD.  (I
> guess that sounds a bit counter,
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> but don't you still need the CD to start the installation)?
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> How can I use FTP to install from the directory I made on another machine,
> so I don't have to keep
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> switching CDs?
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> Tony

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