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Installing Linux

It is impossible to install Scientific Linux (or Fedora Core) to an NFS share. Therefore it is necessary to prepare a minimal working system in a directory, using the mk_fedora.sh (from ????). The original mk_fedora.sh only works for Fedora Core 2; Sergio modified it to work for Scientific Linux 4.

The initial system has very few packages, but includes YUM, so that installing additional packages is easy.

Net-Booting

• install a second net card on a PC
• configure eth1 for a private network, like 10.0.18.0/24
• install DHCP and TFTP daemons on the boot server
• make sure that DHCP only serves the private network on eth1
• the SL system-config-netboot graphical interface does not seem to work well
• anyway, pxeos and pxeboot do setup most of what is necessary
• for the details, see (Korir, can you please link to a good HOWTO ?)

Sergio