Topic: Network Install?

[ewomack]

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?

[Charlie Brady]

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