[TriLUG] PXE SERVER

[Timothy A. Chagnon]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 11:44 -0400, Jim Ray wrote:
> why would the procedure change?  an iso image is an iso image regardless 
> of what protocol is used to transport it from a file to a hard drive.  
> my only concern would be transport protocol overhead.  is NFS as fast as 
> TFTP?  i use TFTP.

An ISO image of *THAT OS* will not be very useful to a linux kernel.
Anaconda used in this way doesn't use the bootable (El Torito) part of
the ISO.  It just loop mounts it (thus requiring NFS not HTTP or FTP)
and gets the RPMS & other installation files.