From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 06:32:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8D516A4DA for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:32:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Andris.Saukums@seb.lv) Received: from dmz.unibanka.lv (nsu2.dmz.unibanka.lv [193.178.150.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3AD43D5F for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:32:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Andris.Saukums@seb.lv) Received: from dinamo.unibanka.lv by dmz.unibanka.lv (MDaemon.PRO.v6.8.4.R) with ESMTP id 21-md50000000308.tmp for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:31:50 +0300 In-Reply-To: <200607260440.k6Q4ehBX002569@cwsys.cwsent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 6.5.5 November 30, 2005 Message-ID: From: Andris.Saukums@seb.lv Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:31:49 +0300 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on dinamo/UNIBANKA/LV(Release 6.5.5|November 30, 2005) at 2006.07.26 09:31:49, Serialize complete at 2006.07.26 09:31:49 X-Spam-Processed: dmz.unibanka.lv, Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:31:50 +0300 (not processed: message from valid local sender) X-Return-Path: Andris.Saukums@seb.lv X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Cy Schubert Subject: Re: Semi FreeBSD Related Fedora Linux Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Andris.Saukums@seb.lv List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:32:55 -0000 If you have a working CD-ROM device, then you would be better off with a little bootloader: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html it fits on a floppy and the usage is straight-forward! Andris :) > 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 > FreeBSD UNIX: Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org > > e**(i*pi)+1=0 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >