Network booting

[gopalkec24]

Hai,friends
i like to know the steps for booting linux over network for installation.
and what are things required for this purpose

[Irithori]

If you are going to netinstall redhat/fedora/centos machines,
cobbler is handy for provisioning.
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/UserDocs

The client machines need to have a PXE enabled NIC.

[Irithori]

Without cobbler, you have to do it manually.
Things you need:
- a client machine with a PXE enabled NIC
- a DHCP server with PXE extensions, correctly configured
- a TFTP server with at least one boot image
- lots of fiddling around

[Irithori]

But perhaps I am on the wrong track.

If you just want to install one machine manually,
then you need a netinstall ISO of your chosen linux distribution.

It will behave almost like a "normal" install from CD/DVD, but get the packages from public repositories.

For example, fedora's netinstall ISO is called Fedora-12-i386-netinst.iso
You can get it on one of the mirrors:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist