<quote who="Greig, Bruno J. Contr."> > Has anyone had the displeasure of trying a network based install. I > tried via NFS with Red Hat's boot.iso image, but had no luck. I did > manage to install one of my servers via http, but that also had some > issues, specifically with dual nic card machines. I would have to try > (and sometimes multiple retries) to get the nic card initialized (seems > more problematic with 3c59x cards) with an IP address. Any one else had > issues? I ve done 4 NFS installs no problem at all, none of the machines were PXE boot/kickstart based, basically all I done was: 1. Create a directory on a specific NFS partition (/exports/redhat/iso/9) 2. dd'ed all 3 cdroms to the nfs mount (dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/exports/redhat/iso/9/shrike-disk1.iso) The name is irrelevant I think) 3. Make sure that I was allowed to connect to an already working workstation (this share did allow root access, so not sure if that makes a difference) 4. created the boot.img and (drvnet.img for workstations and pcmciadd.img for laptops) floppies from the redhat 9 cd under images/ directory. 5. booted using the floppy (as the machines had no cdrom). 6. selected: linux dd 7. Inserted the network driver floppy and loaded the drivers 8. Choose 'NFS' install and enter the following: Server Name: IP Address (to be on the safe side) Mount: /exports/redhat/iso/9/ That was all there was to it, I cannot remember the exact names that the dialog popped up. Hope that helps. Mark
