Topic: CD-less Installation

[Noah Berlove]

I have a machine onto which I want to install e-smith.  However, there currently isn't a cd rom drive installed.  Rather than install a drive (and then take it our when I'm done), is there another way to install the software.

Thanks.

Noah

[jms]

NO there isn't

[stephen noble]

YES there is

it's the same as for a base red hat disto
mount your CD and export it as via NFS
(or FTP or HTML)
use the bootnet.img image instead of the boot.img for your boot floppy

stephen

[Bengt Norhager]

If you have problem with the bootnet.img, use the floppy image from a standard Redhat distribution.
The previous release (3.x e-smith) bootnet.img doesent work with NFS and propably not with FTP.

Bengt

[Damien Curtain]

Bengt Norhager wrote:

> If you have problem with the bootnet.img, use the floppy image
> from a standard Redhat distribution. The previous release (3.x
> e-smith) bootnet.img doesent work with NFS and propably not
> with FTP.

the network boot image for version 4 of e-smith works fine. why would you encourage someone to use 3.x while e-smith 4.0 is available and proven reliable?

--
 Damien

[Noah Berlove]

stephen noble wrote:

> YES there is
>
> it's the same as for a base red hat disto mount your CD and
> export it as via NFS (or FTP or HTML) use the bootnet.img image
> instead of the boot.img for your boot floppy
>
> stephen

Can you give me more information on how to do this (i.e. the part about exporting the CD via NFS or FTP).  Thanks.

[stephen noble]

>Can you give me more information on how to do this (i.e. the part about >exporting the CD via NFS or FTP).  Thanks.

seeing as my nfs isn't working at the moment i don't think i should answer that.
the instructions may be distro specific as well.
eg for redhat as root use ntsysv to start the services, and linuxconf to export the drive.

what i last did was put the new drive in a pc with a cd and intalled in place, the install is pretty machine independant.
then replace and configure in the cd-less pc
this is pretty fast to do.

stephen

[Edward OBrien]

I assume this is for RHL computers, but it seems clear enough.

http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/NFS-Tips/NFS-Tips.html