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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: ewomack on June 26, 2000, 12:15:40 AM
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Has anyone done a network install with e-smith? I tried using the netboot.img on the CD like I would for a normal distrobution of Red Hat (from which e-smith is derived) but I had no luck with it. I have successfully install Red Hat over a network using NFS, HTTP and FTP so I know my system is ok.
I would like to share a single CDROM via NFS (which is easy to add to e-smtih, but HTTP via the i-bays would work for me also) so I can install e-smith to other machines in order to use it as a begining for some dedicated servers. For example: Do a normal install over the network, then remove anything uneeded for printer sharing, thus creating a dedicated print server. This would allow me the ease of setup (Samba, etc.) while allowing me use a single, uniform distrobution of Linux.
Any ideas?
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ewomack wrote:
> Has anyone done a network install with e-smith? I tried using
> the netboot.img on the CD like I would for a normal
> distrobution of Red Hat (from which e-smith is derived) but I
> had no luck with it. I have successfully install Red Hat over
> a network using NFS, HTTP and FTP so I know my system is ok.
..
> Any ideas?
- Take the bootnet.img file from RedHat 6.1.
- Replace syslinux.cfg with the same file from the e-smith
boot.img, but add " network" to the "APPEND" line.
- Add the file ks.cfg from the e-smith boot floppy, but change
the "network ..." line to "network --bootproto dhcp" and
the line "cdrom" to "network".
Let me know how that goes.
regards
Charlie