[ydl-gen] Install without CDs?

[AJ Hawks]

OpenFirmware supports netbooting by default just fine. Our Y-HPC product
is built around this concept.  

It would be pretty difficult to install YDL from a netboot, but it could
be done.

Not just G5's... I know G4's can, and probably also G3s.

-AJ

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 19:30 -0800, Anthony Lanni wrote:
> 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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