ok ed... i'm curious... can you walk me through the basic steps to take a vanilla system, with no floppy/cd drive and get it to load up via ethernet/internet, from a remote server?? i have a system.. i turn it on... and then what do i do..?? thanks... bruce -----Original Message----- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 5:54 PM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: booting up/installing linux... On 11/14/2004 05:34 PM, bruce wrote: > i have a generic question regarding the installation/bootup process for > linux. is there a way to have a motherboard install/bootup linux from a > network connection? Yup - it's known as a PXE boot. The DHCP server transfers control to another server (or it can be the DHCP server itself) which does a kickstart-based install. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
