On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 11:04 -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Mickael Maddison wrote: > > Hello Gerald, > > > > I've thought about that approach, but found it easier to use the stock > > CD1 and simply put the rest of the CD's on an http server within the > > network. Basically, the CDROM is only a boot disk. The command to > > get the kickstart file is linux ks=http://192.168.0.99/anaconda.cfg > > What I usually do is place ks.cfg on a floppy or USB stick and then do > "linux ks=floppy". That way I can use standard installation CD, and > Anaconda does not prompt me for network parameters (they are part of > ks.cfg). Another solution would be to completely boot from the network. > > BTW, it would be nice feature if distribution contained separate rescue > and boot CD images in iso directory. Like those in Fedora Core 3. That > way folks that install directly from mirrors would need to download only > ~80 meg (rescue CD) if they want to be able to boot into rescue mode > when something goes wrong, instead of having to download ~650 megs (the > first CD). Boot CD is already present for those that know where to find > it (in unpacked files under "os" tree), but something tells me you can't > boot into rescue mode with it. There is a boot.iso that is the CentOS distribution it is in the images directory. See, for example, boot.iso in http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/centos/4.0/os/i386/images/ Sean