On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Vratislav Podzimek <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:58 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > Perhaps this isn't the best list for this question, but I can't really > > think of any other place to send it. > > > > For those that don't know, the F15 installer's initrd is many times > > larger than that of previous versions. This is due to the fact that the > > installer no longer downloads a stage2 image over the net and instead > > just has everything available from the beginning. That's all fine and > > good, but I have many servers that I install by using the web-based > > admin console to SMB-mount an ISO image containing isolinux and a > > vmlinuz/initrd pair. The transfer rate is glacial, and I estimate that > > it will take well over an hour just to load the initrd that way. (It > > takes ten minutes to load the F14 installer, and that's already somewhat > > painful when trying to do testing.) > > > > I cannot use PXE as I do not control the DHCP server. > > > > Does anyone have any hints as to how I might be able to do reasonable > > installs now? Is there some sort of PXE-like client I could boot from a > > CD that would let me grab an vmlinuz/initrd pair from a specified > > location over the network? > > > > - J< > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > Maybe http://boot.fedoraproject.org could be the solution. > Vrata > it just uses gpxe, which allows fetching the files over http. one could also use gpxelinux and fetch the kernel/initrd over http as well. Ohad > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
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