Panu Matilainen wrote : > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 19:58 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 20:51 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote: > > > Same here, with some cheapo' 24X CD-ROM readers... I've stopped testing > > > Rawhide installs on those machines ever since the default boot media > > > doesn't fit on a floppy anymore since they can't be fed CD-RWs and Rawhide > > > boot images are just too volatile! > > > > I'm confused -- who tests rawhide with images anyway? > > Heh, I do, and apparently Matthias as well. Yup :-) > > Surely you just do a network install from an rsync'd install tree, and > > all you need for that is a TFTP-capable Grub on a boot floppy (or on a > > bootable CD)? > > I've never gotten around to try that :) Neither have I. I guess I should try some day now that I know it can be done. But for me, the 2nd easiest after pure CD/DVD media install (w/o network) is booting off the tiny ISO image burnt to a CD-RW and doing a network install from a simple ftp, http or nfs server. This reminds me that I've just made a bootable DVD of RHEL4 yesterday, with all source rpms and html docs... works like a charm! (all new servers I purchased have DVD-ROMs, and yes, I'm lazy ;-)) Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux kernel 2.6.10-1.766_FC3 Load : 0.51 0.50 0.37
