[CentOS] Linux boot floppy to install over net

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Jan 3 17:23:37 UTC 2006


At 11:52 AM 1/3/2006, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You can pxeboot though if the notebook is capable. It's a
> > bit more difficult to set up than "insert floppy" but it's
> > not too rough.
>
>It's how us UNIX wennies have been doing it since the '80s.
>Even Microsoft Remote Installation Service (RIS) works
>similarly.
>BOOTP (DHCP), TFTP ... done.|

I HOPE to be in a position to be doing BOOTP based installs in a 
month or two...

Got to get a few more systems up and running.




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