PXE / Network installation of Fedora Core 2

The following is a description of how to set up Fedora Core on two network PCs / laptops.

You need to put the contents of all the Fedora Core CDs, or DVD into a HTTP server or a FTP server. Since this original article was written by myself for myself, I'm skipping that portion (yeah, I'm a CCNA, MCSE, SCJP and SCSA in Singapore.)

Assuming PC1 is with a CD drive, and PC2 is without a CD drive, then

1. On PC1, download PXELinux from http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pxes/pxes-tftp-0.9-1.zip
2. Extract pxelinux.0 to c:\tftpboot
3. Get tftpd32 from http://perso.wanadoo.fr/philippe.jounin/download/tftpd32.274.zip
4. Unzip contents of tftpd zip to c:\tftpboot
5. Run tftpd, and change settings to the following:
   1. set IP start address to say 192.168.0.3 (or other non-conflicting space)
   2. Size of pool = 10
   3. Boot file c:\tftpboot\pxelinux.0
   4. WINS/DNS 192.168.0.1 (adapt accordingly)
   5. Router 192.168.0.1 (adapt accordingly)
   6. Mask 255.255.255.0
   7. In Settings, enable the following
      1. TFTP Server
      2. DHCP Server
      3. TFTP Security: None
      4. Option negotiation
      5. Translate Unix filenames
      6. Allow '\' as root
6. Copy files from boot.iso from Fedora\images with WinRAR, or any other ISO reader into C:\tftpboot
7. Create c:\tftpboot\pxelinux.cfg directory
8. create a file named default in the pxelinux.cfg directory with the following contents

label linux
  kernel vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192

Insert a RIS disk into floppy drive of PC2 and boot with the RIS disk.