Question about setting up FTP server for Linux Fedora installation
LaBird
I'd like to ask the general procedures about setting up a local FTP server
for other machines to install Linux (Fedora Core 1) from this server via
LAN. Seems that apart from the .iso images, I still need some other files so
that the server can start up the installation procedure as well as
decompressing the .iso images. How can I get these files? And, is there any
online links that teach about this? (I tried "FTP server" and "Linux
installation" but this gives me too many links unrelated to this subject.)
Thanks a lot in advance!
Best Regards,
LaBird (Benny).
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Jack Snodgrass
FTP is evil. Use scp or sftp as alternatives.
As for doing network installs... use apache/http instead.
I download the .iso image and mount it using a loop back interface...
mount -o loop /some.iso /www/htdocs/mountpoint
where some.iso is the FC3 iso and /www/htdocs is my web server document
root directory. Then I boot with a FC netboot disk and specify
http://websrvr/mountpoint
do do the install.
jack
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Sybren Stuvel
> FTP is evil. Use scp or sftp as alternatives.
FTP is just fine, as long as you don't do any authentication and keep
things read-only. Which is exactly what OP needs.
Sybren
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Sybren Stuvel
> I'd like to ask the general procedures about setting up a local FTP server
> for other machines to install Linux (Fedora Core 1) from this server via
> LAN.
Mirror an existing FTP server that's used for this purpose, and you
should be set. Why do you think there is anything special about it?
LaBird
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> Mirror an existing FTP server that's used for this purpose, and you
> should be set. Why do you think there is anything special about it?
>
Thanks for your answer, I have this thought because during the FTP install
of Fedora, I have read the log which suggests the machine installing Fedora
needs to read two or three files from the FTP site (one of them is called
something started with "stage2"), so I think these files are needed in order
to configure a server for Fedora installation.
Best Regards,
LaBird (Benny).
LaBird
I just popped up with another problem:
Are all the files needed for FTP installation of Fedora 1 located in the
subtree pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os in any existing FTP site?
(while pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/iso is not needed for FTP
installation since it is only for CD installation only?)
And also, is the CD bootdisk image for FTP installation located at
pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/images/boot.iso ?
Best Regards,
LaBird (Benny).
Sybren Stuvel
> Are all the files needed for FTP installation of Fedora 1 located in
> the subtree pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os in any existing
> FTP site? (while pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/iso is not
> needed for FTP installation since it is only for CD installation
> only?)
I really don't know. I haven't used RedHat for years. Amongst others I
tried Debian, Gentoo and Ubuntu, and I like them all better than
RedHat.