> 1. You mention copying stuff to the HD. The Redhat docs mention > copying stuff (like a driver disk image, for example) to the hard drive > as well. However, if there's no OS on the drive, how the h*** does that > work? Is there some magic to putting stuff on a disk with no filesystem > on it? Are people installing first from the CD just to have something > there to copy to? Doesn't this sorta defeat the efficiency of an > automated install - and thus, its purpose? Yes, for copying things to HD you should at least have it formated. Booting from HD is a good option for the scecond Installation. The first time You must start the installation by hand using a floppy (best solution with NFS) or a selfbuild CD (when using kickstart via NFS) or using PXE, but then you have to configure your NIC and a tftp server, which is not faster than inserting a floppy. After that you can install by booting vmlinuz and initrd.img, you copied from the floppy. You can rewrite you lilo or grub.conf via ssh and reboot for reinstalling (for example to upgrade to the next RH version). Florian Festi
