[ydl-gen] Install without CDs?

[Anthony Lanni]

Is there an equivilant to the PXE net boot protocol on Macintosh? Or the
kickstart/
anaconda stuff in Yellow Dog?

On 11/1/05, Robert Story <rstory-l at revelstone.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:32:44 -0500 Jim wrote:
> JH> Is it possible to install YDL 4.0.1 from the Mac OS X partition or
> from
> JH> a FireWire drive or via ftp? I have the 4 ISO images downloaded. My CD
> JH> burner is broken.
>
> Do you have an existing YDL install? If so, you can copy some files over
> from
> the isos and boot into the install program directly.
>
> If not, you'll need to burn at least the 1st CD. You can install the rest
> from
> ftp, assuming you have access to another linux box where you can mount the
> iso
> and create a directory with symlinks to the RPMS on the mounted isos.
>
> Once you've got the iso images on a linux system (the ftp server), here is
> a
> script to create the directory structure you'll need to install from:
>
> http://www.futz.org/tech/index.php/AnacondaNetInstallViaImages
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