[ILUG] FC 9 Net Install

[Glen Gray]

I've done it via the GUI mode once before and it just worked, so I'm not 
sure what to say there.

Glad the text mode is working out ok.


Michael Watterson wrote:
> Glen Gray wrote:
>> It's working for me at the moment, so I'm not sure what you've done. 
>> Here's what I did
>>
>> 1) Download and burn
>>    
>> http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os/images/boot.iso 
>>
>>
>> 2) Bootup, and choose URL, after configuring your eth0 device you'll 
>> be asked for a url, enter
>>    http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os/
>>
>> If you see Retrieving stage2.img then you've got it correct. 
>> Alt+F3/F4 will give you consoles showing some debugs and kernel 
>> messages.
>>   Glen Gray wrote:
>>> Let me boot the ISO to refresh my memory
>>>
>>> Michael Watterson wrote:
>>>> Glen Gray wrote:
>>>>> I do these all the time, you want to choose the server in one 
>>>>> dialog field, http://ftp.heanet.ie and then put the path to the os 
>>>>> dir in the other, pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os/
>>>>>
> Indeed that's what I did originally. You did it in text mode install?
> text mode install working...
>
> Preparing Transaction from Installation Source
> ** 5%
> 47 of 1104 packages complete ...
>
>
> Dunno. Maybe the GUI based version doesn't set up the GW & SM 
> properly? (I have the box on a NAT router), though it did ask.
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Glen Gray (slaine at slaine.org)