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Install Linux Over the Internet
You don't have to rely on CDs or DVDs to install Linux; you can run a Linux 
installation routine directly over the Internet.

Scott Spanbauer
PC World
Wednesday, April 26, 2006; 3:10 AM 


One of the best things about Linux is that its dozens of varied incarnations 
are generally available as free downloads on the Internet. To install the 
latest version of Novell's OpenSUSE Linux, Red Hat's Fedora Core 5, or Ubuntu 
Linux, all you have to do is download the CD or DVD image files from the 
distribution's Web site or via BitTorrent (you can you can download the 
software from us), burn them, and boot your PC with the first disc.

But if your Internet connection is swift, and if you're only planning a 
one-time installation on a single computer, you can skip the disc image 
downloading and burning, and instead install Linux directly from an Internet 
server.

The benefits of a server- or network-based installation are manifold. For one, 
it lets you install Linux wherever you are without having to schlep discs 
around. It also reduces the overall size of the download--instead of 
downloading all five CDs (or one DVD) worth of install files, you download only 
those you need for the installation, using as much or as little of it as you 
need.

This method also lets you install Linux on devices that lack a CD or DVD drive 
(like ultraslim notebooks), so you could boot from a USB thumb drive or other 
bootable USB device. Best of all, it allows you to install any available 
version of the distribution, including the very latest one, without having to 
download and burn an additional set of discs.

Though numerous Linux distributions support network installations, this month I 
provides specific pointers for two of the most popular distributions: OpenSUSE 
10.0 and Fedora Core 5 . The procedure for each is nearly identical to a 
disc-based installation--only the source of the files changes.

Did I say you don't have to download and burn a disc? I may have oversimplified 
things. To install Linux, you must first boot Linux, so you'll need a boot disc 
or other bootable device. If you are truly determined (or forced) to install 
Linux on your PC without any sort of removable boot disc or device, read Marc 
Herbert's rather thorough-looking how-to about this option.

The rest of us will need to boot the PC using a boot disc or device. The good 
news is that the .iso disc-image file for a boot disc is quite small--only 
6.67MB in the case of Fedora Core 5 , and 64MB for OpenSUSE (significantly 
larger, but still a lot smaller than a full install CD, which runs about 
650MB). These downloads are for PCs based on 32-bit Intel CPUs, but 64-bit 
versions are also available.

To create the boot disc, download the .iso file to your PC and burn it using 
your CD-burning program's option to create a disc from an image file. But 
before you do, make sure your PC supports booting from a CD-ROM; older 
computers may not.

USB thumb drives are handier and more durable than recordable CD media, which 
could make them preferable for bootstrapping a Linux installation. The bad news 
is that OpenSUSE doesn't appear to offer an easy way to boot from a USB drive. 
But Fedora Core does: Download the file diskboot.img from Fedora's Web site. At 
a Linux shell prompt, enter the command , where drive is your USB drive's 
device name. You may need to change your PC's BIOS settings to allow booting 
from USB devices; and as with CDs, older computers may not support this option.

After booting your PC from the boot disc or device, you'll have to provide the 
Linux distribution's installation program with all the information it needs to 
get the files, including how it should connect to the Internet, what type of 
server it will be dealing with, and, finally, the location of the server.

After a few preliminaries, the installer will ask you to pick a network 
interface--you'll probably see only one, unless you've installed additional 
network adapters, such as a Wi-Fi client, in your PC. You'll then have to 
specify how the installer will receive an IP address for your own network; most 
often you'll select DHCP to receive an address automatically from a router or 
other server.

Next, you'll need to tell the installer whether you want to retrieve your Linux 
files from an ftp or an http server. From a user perspective, it makes little 
difference which one you choose, but you do have to choose one. Both Fedora 
Core and OpenSUSE are available via either ftp or http.

Finally, tell the installer where to look for the distribution's installation 
files. Pick a site near you from the list of Fedora Core 5 or OpenSUSE mirror 
sites. For either distribution, you'll need to specify the appropriate version 
for your CPU: x86 and i386 are for 32-bit processors; x86_64 is for 64-bit 
processors.

Once the download starts, you'll probably want to find something else to do, 
since the process will take a bit longer than a CD-based install. I usually 
start one of these at bedtime and return in the morning to finish up. But the 
upside is that I don't have to swap, burn, store, or discard any discs.




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