Installing w/o floppy or CD

From: Andrew Gideon (c172driver1_at_gideon.org)
Date: 01/28/04

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    A while back, I posted about installing on small hardware (ie. 1U machines,
    fatter machines with smaller footprint, etc.). I'm giving a 1U from Supermicro
    a try.

    But to stay small, yet keep mirrored disks, I need to give up on a CDROM and
    Floppy. For the most part, that's no problem. The only time I'd use these
    is in an installation.

    So...how does one install with neither CDROM nor floppy?

    I assume that one part involves a DHCP server. But what's next? I remember
    from when I used diskless SUN workstations that the kernel was available via
    either BOOTP or TFTP (I don't recall the details too well anymore), and that
    the various filesystems were simply NFSed.

    I suppose that there's some analog for a diskless Linux machine. But what
    about a diskfull installation?

    Pointers to documentation on this would be fine. I've tried searching, but
    I'm obviously not looking for the right combination of keywords. For example,
    I found:

            http://www.telenovela-world.com/~spade/linux/howto/Network-Install-HOWTO.html

    but this requires at least a boot floppy.

    Any pointers? Thanks...

            Andrew

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