Re: Kickstarting FC2 installs

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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:

>Is it possible to do what I am trying (eg create a ks bootdisk and do
>an nfs install of fc2)? Everything I have read leads me to believe it
>can. So my question is, why am I seeing two different behaviors? The
>only REAL difference is via PXE I load the vmlinuz and initrd.img from
>the FC2/images/pxeboot tree rather than using say bootimg and dd to
>create a boot disk. Would this cause this type of behavior? I tried to
>get those two files onto my boot disk but alas they are too large for a
>1.44M floppy.

Erm, which files *did* fit? You'd need both vmlinuz and initrd to get
the network drivers, without which you'd see, well, the issues you're
having.

You'd have to jump through a painful number of hoops to get working
floppy bootdisk with FC2. Is CD-ROM an option?


Cheers,
Phil


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