On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:58 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III 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? > > - J< > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list Maybe http://boot.fedoraproject.org could be the solution. Vrata _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
