Jesse Keating wrote:
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 04:56, Greig, Bruno J. Contr. uttered:
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 probably done roughly 60 network based installes since RHL9 became available. Most of them are PXE boot/kickstart based, pulling content over NFS. We haven't had any issues. What is this "boot.iso" image you speak of?
boot.iso is the boot portion if CD1. If you mount CD1 and look at the isolinux directory, that's the same thing that is on boot.iso (in the images directory of CD1). diff says that boot.cat and isolinux.bin are different. The important parts are the same in both, initrd.img and vmlinuz.
So boot.iso is a big boot floppy :) With all the drivers, so you dont need the extra floppies for NICs or PCMCIA.
It's 3.5M (while the full CD1 is 638M) so it will fit on the small, card sized CDs. It's also easier to modify and rebuild that all of CD1,but faster than floppies. Sounds good for kickstart, since most NICs today are not bootable, and PXE is not real common (none of the 20 machines I use support it. The new file server might though)
-Thomas
