On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:59:23AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 3/28/2011 10:41 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
Why not use the netinstall ISO rather than download everything?
How exactly do I do this? I guess I could install it on a USB stick, and boot that on my new server. Is that what you mean? (There is no CD drive on the server.)
Yes, there should be a small boot image along with the isos that you can boot from usb or pxe, then you pick the nfs install method and put in the path to the directory where you downloaded the CD iso images. There are other network install options, but nfs is quick and easy if you've already downloaded the iso images.
Yep, or point to an internet-sourced HTTP address and let the install run overnight if you've got a slow connection...
One _real_ quick way to join all your CD ISO's together is to use fuse-unionfs on an existing Linux box. Tell it to union each of your loopback mounted ISO mountpoints into a new mountpoint, then export that via NFS to your installation client (or via HTTP).
Ray