On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 11:04 -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Mickael Maddison wrote:
> > Hello Gerald,
> >
> > I've thought about that approach, but found it easier to use the stock
> > CD1 and simply put the rest of the CD's on an http server within the
> > network. Basically, the CDROM is only a boot disk. The command to
> > get the kickstart file is linux ks=http://192.168.0.99/anaconda.cfg
>
> What I usually do is place ks.cfg on a floppy or USB stick and then do
> "linux ks=floppy". That way I can use standard installation CD, and
> Anaconda does not prompt me for network parameters (they are part of
> ks.cfg). Another solution would be to completely boot from the network.
>
> BTW, it would be nice feature if distribution contained separate rescue
> and boot CD images in iso directory. Like those in Fedora Core 3. That
> way folks that install directly from mirrors would need to download only
> ~80 meg (rescue CD) if they want to be able to boot into rescue mode
> when something goes wrong, instead of having to download ~650 megs (the
> first CD). Boot CD is already present for those that know where to find
> it (in unpacked files under "os" tree), but something tells me you can't
> boot into rescue mode with it.
There is a boot.iso that is the CentOS distribution it is in the images
directory. See, for example, boot.iso in
http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/centos/4.0/os/i386/images/
Sean
