On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 11:37 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > On Tue 06 Sep 2005 06:58, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > > why do i care? i want to remotely install without any CDs. i'm trying > > > to find the code that runs when you boot from CD.. > > > > You'll probably want to look into PXE installations for that: > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ > >ch-pxe.html > > I don't see anything at that URL which tells you where to find the code > that runs when you boot from CD. But it does tell you one way to install without any CD's, remotely even, which is what Greg was asking about. > > I'm interested in this question because I had (and still have) > a problem installing or upgrading to FC-4 on my Sony C1VFK Picturebook, > as described in <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160940>. > [In the end I upgraded with yum.] > > As I had no response to this bugzilla - > my experience with bugzillas has been pretty dire - > I started to look at the code, > and was surprised to find that the python line numbers given in the traceback > did not seem to match any version of the files that I could find. > > So I would like to know exactly where the code that runs during installation - > perhaps a slightly different question - > can be found. Like already said, anaconda itself is in the *stage*.img files in the base/ directory of installation repository/CD. Or you can grab the corresponding anaconda SRPM and inspect that, for FC that'd be http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/SRPMS/anaconda-10.2.1.5-2.src.rpm - Panu -
