Archive for 'Linux Installation'

Installing Fedora Core 10 in text mode

By default, Fedora core 10 will install in graphical mode. This is not ideal for the vast majority of my hosts, since they run inside a VMWare virtual machine. To get Fedora Core 10 to install in text mode, you can hit the <tab> key at the install screen and add the keyword “text” to [...]

Kickstarting Linux without a DHCP server

Kickstart is a super useful techology for performing Linux installations. Typically when you type linux ks=XXX from the boot menu: boot: linux ks=floppy:/ks.cfg The host will use DHCP to acquire an IP address. If a DHCP server isn’t available on the network you want to perform the kickstart on, you can forego DHCP and assign [...]