Isn't F15 still in alpha? You might wish to raise that concern with the developers while it is early. On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Ohad Levy <ohadlevy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> Perhaps this isn't the best list for this question, but I can't really >> think of any other place to send it. >> >> For those that don't know, the F15 installer's initrd is many times >> larger than that of previous versions. This is due to the fact that the >> installer no longer downloads a stage2 image over the net and instead >> just has everything available from the beginning. That's all fine and >> good, but I have many servers that I install by using the web-based >> admin console to SMB-mount an ISO image containing isolinux and a >> vmlinuz/initrd pair. The transfer rate is glacial, and I estimate that >> it will take well over an hour just to load the initrd that way. (It >> takes ten minutes to load the F14 installer, and that's already somewhat >> painful when trying to do testing.) >> >> I cannot use PXE as I do not control the DHCP server. >> >> Does anyone have any hints as to how I might be able to do reasonable >> installs now? Is there some sort of PXE-like client I could boot from a >> CD that would let me grab an vmlinuz/initrd pair from a specified >> location over the network? >> > you can use gpxelinux (or gpxe directly) to fetch the files over http. > you can setup a usb/iso/tftp/whatever image. > Ohad >> >> - J< >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kickstart-list mailing list >> Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Terry McIntyre UNIX for hire Software Development, Systems Administration, Security terry.mcintyre@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
