[ale] network install of RH 8.0

[James P. Kinney III]

Jason,

RH8 supports a net install using FNS-mounted source directories. There
is documentation on how to do this on the first install CD. It is quite
easy pretty speedy with a boot floppy setup for kickstart.

Fulton,

Bellouse's use of PPPoE will not be a showstopper. The downloading of 1G
of binaries over a 1.1Mbps line (at best) will work, but it will take a
while.

Now SERVING the net install over ANY DSL line will be a painful
experience since the upload speed is around 128-256kbps.

In fact, PPPoE is no considerable overhead at all (it won't be noticed)
on any box better than a 100Mhz firewall. 

Now if Bellouse would let me get access to the 10Mb fiber line they ran
to the end of my driveway 2 years ago...

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 16:40, Fulton Green wrote:
> And as a followup, I was wondering how hard it would be to net-install if
> BellSouth DSL provided the net- part of the install, i.e., would its PPPoE
> requirement be a show-stopper?
> 
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:29:07PM -0500, Jason Vinson wrote:
> > I just got asked to install Red Hat 8.0 on a few rack mounted machines with no cd drives.  I could crack the cases and manually attach a drive, but i wanted to see if there was a network install option, and if so, how hard is it to do.
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