{"id":1039,"date":"2011-06-09T01:15:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T23:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raftaman.net\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2021-05-15T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T09:46:39","slug":"bootstrapping-a-fedora-15-rootserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"Bootstrapping a Fedora 15 rootserver"},"content":{"rendered":"

In certain situations where you don’t have physical access to your server it can be quite helpful to know how to install a new os without physical media like CD\/DVD\/USB or pxe.<\/p>\n

This brief example shows you, how to bootstrap a rootserver (that of course already has a linux os installed that you can access through ssh) to install Fedora 15.<\/p>\n

First, you’ll need the initial ramdisk and the kernel images:<\/p>\n

\r\ncd \/boot\/\r\nwget http:\/\/dl.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/fedora\/linux\/releases\/15\/Fedora\/x86_64\/os\/isolinux\/initrd.img\r\nwget http:\/\/dl.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/fedora\/linux\/releases\/15\/Fedora\/x86_64\/os\/isolinux\/vmlinuz\r\n<\/pre>\n
Next, you add a new boot target to your grub.conf<\/code>:<\/p>\n
\r\n[...]\r\n title Fedora Install\r\n  root (hd0,0)\r\n  kernel \/vmlinuz vnc vncpassword=SECRET ksdevice=eth0 ks=http:\/\/server\/ks.cfg\r\n  initrd \/initrd.img\r\n<\/pre>\n
Don’t forget to change the boot target (default=n<\/code>)<\/strong> in your grub.conf<\/code>, too.<\/p>\n
After rebooting the server, you can observe the installation process with your favourite vnc viewer.<\/p>\n
\"F15vncInstall\"<\/a>
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In certain situations where you don’t have physical access to your server it can be quite helpful to know how to install a new os without physical media like CD\/DVD\/USB or pxe. This brief example shows you, how to bootstrap a rootserver (that of course already has a linux os installed that you can access through ssh) to install Fedora… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,40],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fedora","tag-vnc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}