Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:40:43 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Semi FreeBSD Related Fedora Linux Question Message-ID: <200607260440.k6Q4ehBX002569@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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I have a situation where I need to install Fedora Linux on a computer however the CDROM drive is not bootable (old SCSI cdrom drive and an old Adaptec 1542 controller which does not support CDROM boot) and as Fedora no longer supports floppy installs as FreeBSD does, I'm left with the possibility of a network install. Anyhow I had the idea today, while walking my dog, to use one of the FreeBSD systems on my network as a Red Hat kickstart server. It should work, shouldn't it? Red Hat kickstart is just a bootp server with a TFTP server to boot the kernel and an NFS server to install off of, just like a Solaris Jumpstart server would. If I put all the right bits and pieces in the right places, one of my FreeBSD systems should be able to serve as a Red Hat Linux kickstart server, or so I would think. Has anyone done this before? I suppose for that matter a FreeBSD system could even serve as a Solaris Jumpstart server. All the proprietary bits and pieces are served over the network via NFS while the client executes any proprietary code. A Red Hat kickstart server would work similarly so this should work, at least in theory, in both cases. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org e**(i*pi)+1=0
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