Fedora41 network boot installation issue

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I am trying to install fedora 41 on a freedos machine through network.

The client machine gets an IP, and starts getting files grub.cfg, vmlinuz, initrd.img.

But after invited.img is transferred, the connection drops and client enters emergency mode.

I made some changes so that after connection drops, the client should again get the IP. However, even after getting the ip, installation can’t proceed. It says root for system can not be mounted.

Does fedora 41 not support network installation?

I’ve disabled secure boot on client, firewall on sever.

2

If you use the everything ISO it does the net install from the fedora repos.
If I understand your comments it appears you are trying to install on a client from a local server.

Am I misunderstanding? or are you trying to install from a local server.
If installing from a local server you would need to create a local repo and do other manipulations to manage the configs.

3

Yes. I’m trying using local server.

4

Are you doing this because you want to install 100’s of systems?
Or just 1?

If installing 100’s then you could setup tftp server and a kuclstart file to do the install, but that is a lot of work to bet setup.

5

I want to learn how it’s done. I have to setup only 10 systems.

6

You will need to setup a TFTP server and the correct DNS entries to allow a BIOS network boot to start the install. A kickstart file you create will be used to control exactly how the install is done. You should be able to find the details from a few web searches.

7

didn’t try the kickstart file… will work

8

There is a real good documentation for a boot server setup in the fedora docs which could be helpful.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f36/install-guide/advanced/Network_based_Installations/

9

Oh great… I’ll check this out… Thank you