Re: Installing Red Hat

On 2008-06-24, naza <naza911@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have got hold of quite a basic box, very little is on the mobo. I
want to use it as a basic file server and maybe a LAN game server. I
got hold of a copy of Red Hat but there is a problem installing it.
The computer has no Floppy, CD-ROM/DVD drive. It has a NIC and HD but
thats about it. I thought I may be able to do a network boot which it
does support and install it like that but that never went too well. So
I was wondering If anyone knew of a guide or could provide some
instructions on how to set that up.

Just quickly check the BIOS to see if it'll boot from a USB drive, and
if so, then try a USB DVD/CD drive if you've got one hanging around,
it's worth checking as it's the lazy way! If it'll boot from USB but
you have no USB DVD/CD then either get one, or look into booting from
USB storage, it may well be very easy to sort out.

Another relatively easy way is to install to a hard disc in another
computer, using the generic options, then move the hard disc to the
basic machine. Just watch out for selecting CPU optimisations that
aren't available on the basic machine, although that's not normally an
issue with distros other than gentoo.

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