kemical Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 Ok we have now decided to Install Linux Red Hat 9.0, roll out StarOffice and install Adobe Acrobat for third party application. We will use kickstart to deploy the software and up2date for the updates.I'm currently downloading Staroffice and RedHat 9.0 Here are my new questions? Where can I download Red Hat 9.0 from? I'm currently downloading from Red Hat themselves but i'm only getting 20k/sec and it's going to take forever and the link to disc 2 and 3 do not work. Do you guys know any other place? I have not done any research on this yet, but i figured i would ask anyway. What is the name of the service to create a Automated Installation of StarOffice. Thanx for the support automated installation of staroffice is nothing more than including that package in the kickstart config file. do your research on kickstart first before asking about these things.. i think you will find everything you need to know in your research on using redhat's kickstart configuration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eversurf Posted April 28, 2004 Author Share Posted April 28, 2004 Thanx for the Linuxiso.org link very much faster then the Red Hat Site. So i can just add pretty much everything to the kickstart, I will be installing my server tonight and we will go from there. Thanx for the support guys, the fun should soon begin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxious Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 :sigh: wish i got to do cool stuff like this :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 28, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 28, 2004 :sigh: wish i got to do cool stuff like this :( You can! Find people who are throwing away 'old' and 'useless' Pentium 166 machines, and make a small home network! With enough RAM, even a GUI runs OK on these older machines. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eversurf Posted April 28, 2004 Author Share Posted April 28, 2004 (edited) Ok we have installed RedHat Linux 9.0 and everything went well. We created our Kickstart file and that went well as well (It rimes). now we are trying to use the PXE boot option but it doesn't seem to be available with kickstart. Do you guys have any ideas how we would proceed to do this? Thanx Found it http://www.stanford.edu/~alfw/PXE-Kickstar...-Kickstart.html Edited April 28, 2004 by Eversurf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eversurf Posted April 28, 2004 Author Share Posted April 28, 2004 Red Hat has the Worst website ever I registered for the Knowledgebase and when i type dhcp or troubleshoot dhcp it doesn't come up with anything..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 29, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 29, 2004 Red Hat has the Worst website everI registered for the Knowledgebase and when i type dhcp or troubleshoot dhcp it doesn't come up with anything..... When I did it, I got four poor results. However, there is a link to the right for "Red Hat Documentation", and I clicked that, and got: http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q...&np=0&ul=/docs/ which seemed to have a LOT of relevant information from the manuals. You *have* already downloaded and reviewed the manuals, right? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eversurf Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 You *have* already downloaded and reviewed the manuals, right? ;) Of course not. We have DHCP working now, but we are trying to install a TFTP server. The one that comes with Red Hat is not compatible with PXE boot. I downloaded another one atftp. I have it on my server now but i can't seem to be able to install it. Can you guys give me a few hints on how to install a "package" not sure if you even call it that way. They should create a linux userguide for the Window user. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eversurf Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 Ok i got my package installed Keeping moving forward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 29, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 29, 2004 This is what is called the "Linux Learning Curve". It may seem like a lot to swallow, but in the end... you find that you have learned a lot more about computers in general, and will have a lot more confidence when working with Linux. (this learning curve can be avoided by simply installing Linspire, Xandros, Lycoris, etc.... But what's the fun in that?) ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mldkfa Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 Hmm markjensen should take a job as an grade school teacher (find your happy place?). Linux is hard. I have been trying to learn it for months now and run it as my webserver and partly as my main computer (dual boot). I'm in a comp sci class right now that uses just linux and to tell you the truth I really haven't learned how to do too much. I think that the easier learning curve would be windows. I would be interested in learning if this multiple desktop thing were possible and easy on windows? I mean 80% of the os's are windows so somebody must know how to make lan boot of this aie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eversurf Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 I think mldkfa is right. I just got back from School. The learning curve is really big. I mean just to install a piece of software i had verify that all the library needed were there, compile the program and then istall it and then start it. Well anyway, here is the status of the project. We are about 5 hours into it. We have the server up and running, the DHCP is working, the answer file is created and the TFTP server is installed. We are about 30% done. I think we will work a little more on it this week-end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 a friend over at redhat gave me a redhat system administration book and ive learned everything i can about redhat and following in the book, learning curve is small if you have a good book i think oh yea and you have to like to read/research yourself :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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