I'm really interested in working with the puppet application, and I just
happen to have an extra laptop hanging around. Said laptop turned out to
be capable of booting from USB. I found an old external hard drive which
formerly booted Fedora 8.
I connected the hard drive to the laptop's USB port.
Went to another machine and mounted the Fedora 11 i386 iso image on one
of my webservers.
Came back to the laptop and booted Fedora 8. By downloading the vmlinuz
and initrd images off the web server, moving them into /boot, and then
adding a suitable stanza to grub.conf, and then rebooting, I was able to
get a medialess install started.
I had a perfect install experience!
The beauty of it is, because I checked off the Fedora updates repository
as one of the repositories to use, I got the latest and greatest
versions of everything. A big bonus was I didn't have to burn another
DVD that would go unused and land in the trash. 10 cheers for medialess
installation methods.
As to the puppet client on the very fresh Fedora 11 machine, I'm still
working at getting it to connect to the puppet server which is on this
machine. I needed to clean up some of my local DNS zone files. I've
gotten sloppy over the years and I don't do DNS every day. So I also had
to read carefully about CNAME records. The 10th time is the charm.
Tomorrow success will be mine, I hope.
Bob
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