RHEL WS 4 - Remote Boot ???

[Steven Bearden]

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to boot up a server using RHEL4 WS from a .iso file of CD1 that is on a NFS (networked) server? If so, how would I do it?

Thanks

Steve

[Mike Stroyan · Accepted solution]

You can set up a PXE boot server to boot and install from the network. It is documented at
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-pxe.html

[Steven Bearden]

Thanks for the quick reply and the help. I am fairly new to Linux (I've been in VMS land wandering for over 20 years) and am learning lots. Thanks again for the help I appreciate it.

[ryan_gray]

Hey there,
Although I think Mr. Stroyan's solution is more elegant, you could do it with a few more steps... you could copy the distro in a directory on an apache server. Then burn a copy of CD1 to manually boot the server with. Chose to install via HTTP server instead of Local CDROM. It can be fairly fast too depending on where you are in relation to the apache server.

From the README-en on CD1:
"If you are setting up an installation tree for NFS, FTP, or HTTP installations, you must copy the RELEASE-NOTES files and all files from the RedHat directory on all operating systems CD-ROMs."

There is some more detailed information in that file, so check it out. If all you have are the iso files, just mount -o loop the iso file to read it and to copy your other CDs.