Semi FreeBSD Related Fedora Linux Question
Andris.Saukums at seb.lv
Andris.Saukums at seb.lv
Wed Jul 26 06:32:55 UTC 2006
If you have a working CD-ROM device, then you would be better off with a
little bootloader:
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html
it fits on a floppy and the usage is straight-forward!
Andris :)
> I have a situation where I need to install Fedora Linux on a computer
> however the CDROM drive is not bootable (old SCSI cdrom drive and an old
> Adaptec 1542 controller which does not support CDROM boot) and as Fedora
no
> longer supports floppy installs as FreeBSD does, I'm left with the
> possibility of a network install. Anyhow I had the idea today, while
> walking my dog, to use one of the FreeBSD systems on my network as a Red
> Hat kickstart server. It should work, shouldn't it? Red Hat kickstart is
> just a bootp server with a TFTP server to boot the kernel and an NFS
server
> to install off of, just like a Solaris Jumpstart server would. If I put
all
> the right bits and pieces in the right places, one of my FreeBSD systems
> should be able to serve as a Red Hat Linux kickstart server, or so I
would
> think. Has anyone done this before?
>
> I suppose for that matter a FreeBSD system could even serve as a Solaris
> Jumpstart server. All the proprietary bits and pieces are served over
the
> network via NFS while the client executes any proprietary code. A Red
Hat
> kickstart server would work similarly so this should work, at least in
> theory, in both cases.
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at komquats.com>
> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy at FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org
>
> e**(i*pi)+1=0
>
>
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