Net install Red Hat without cd-rom or floppy?

[helpme]

I'm trying to install red hat 9.0 on to a blade machine that does not have a CD-rom or floppy, only ethernet and Hdds.

What is the best way for me to install red hat onto this machine? Net booting the machine? How would I make the image?

Copy the install files on to another HDD? make that HDD bootable and install from that drive?

 

[Nothinman]

There are tftp images on the CD (atleast there should be). You'll need to get PXE booting (assuming it's an intel box) which isn't very well documented, but we got it working at work. We loaded Linux on a Dell NAS that comes with Windows on it =)

I've personally only net booted UltraSparc and Alpha hardware, it's simple on them.

 

[helpme]

I've done tftp/pxe booting before, so maybe I'll have success with that. So the image should allow me to NFS mount the files for installation?

 

[Nothinman]

Yea, that's how we did it. You should be able to do FTP or HTTP install (can't remember if RH still supports that or not) if that's easier to setup.

 

[helpme]

Good deal, I guess I'll give it a shot tommorow. Thanks for the help!

 

[Abzstrak]

Knoppix has a built in terminal server that will answer PXE boot requests and boot you into KDE with all the goodies without an installation. Its pretty handy, you just need another system running knoppix (just booted off the CD). From there it shouldn't be a problem at all to install any distro you want.

 

[helpme]

Originally posted by: Abzstrak
Knoppix has a built in terminal server that will answer PXE boot requests and boot you into KDE with all the goodies without an installation. Its pretty handy, you just need another system running knoppix (just booted off the CD). From there it shouldn't be a problem at all to install any distro you want.

Ooooooo neato! I'll take a look at that today.