Install Fedora using local Network

As we know laptop CD/DVD writer not work more then 1 year (only if you are lucky) but installation of linux is not hard because you can use bootable pendrive . Using bootable pendrive we can install only base system because its use live image. So if you have two machine and one machine has fedora 13 iso and running some linux distro then you can install it on another machine by setup a local sever.
there are some basic step you have to follow for that

Configure Server (On my server fedora is running so all the setting work on fedora) :-

1.) One machine Which you want it server you install Apache on it and run Apache service using command "service httpd start".
2.) Then mount your Fedora -13 image on location /var/www/html/iso/ for that first we make iso directory in html folder using "mkdir" command.
3.) mount image using command "mount -o loop -t iso9660 /image-location /var/www/html/iso/"

Client Setting (System on which you want to install and i assume in client you have window installed otherwise you just upgrade your system) :-

1.) Download and install unetbootin on your system (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/)
2.) Then you need two files "vmlinuz and initrd.img" you got those from your server machine go to mounted directory (/var/www/html/iso/) and there is a folder "isolinux" you copy those file and paste it your client machine.
3. ) Open unetbootin and check Custom Option and in Kernel option give vmlinuz path and Initrd option give path of initrd.img.
4.) Select type: Hard disk and Drive: C .
5.) Click Ok and then reboot message pop up and just reboot.

when system is restart then select unetbootin option and after few queries you will get which medium you want install and there select url option and click next. After that url window pop up you have to give your server ip with path like in our example its "http://server_ip/iso/" and click ok. After that every thing go normally .

*Due to less bandwidth not able to upload screen-shots if you have any query regarding that topic drop me a mail.

Update

It has been quite long time that i have blogged. In this summer after rejected form IIT Mumbai i started a open source project GAxel. It is just a Graphical Interface of axel (a command line download accelerator) which is build using QT and C++. I just released its pre-alpha version and upload it on source-forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaxel/ ).

In between my semester exam i attended rpm-build workshop which held on fedora-india freenode. It was a awesome workshop and i learned many things form that workshop.

my future planning is to add more features in GAxel and then build rpm.