Re: Installing Red Hat

Ian Rawlings wrote:
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.

Booting from a memory stick and doing a network install is probably the simplest. Although network installs never seem to be as simple as they should be!

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.


It's likely to be an issue with several distros - if the architecture of the installation machine is different to the target machine. Fedora, for example, will install at least a kernel to match the processor. If it's only the kernel, though, it's a simple matter of installing the right one for the target machine before moving the hard drive.


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