Sometimes you feel like a dang fool. Compatibility woes for the unlearned. Should'a had a list of "good cards" when I went to buy one. In my youthful exuberance I went out and bought a 3Com card figuring that it would have a great likelihood of driver/module compatibility. I was half right. Lots of 3Com cards are. I am now staring at a: 3Com Fast Ethernet PCI NIC 3CSOHO100-TX Guess what doesn't appear to be supported with drivers or module #'s for Linux? Feel free to show me up by pointing to where to look, as my searches have yielded nothing. 3Com is useless on this point. Colin
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On 08/11/01, 04:24:02, skip gaede <sgaede@mediaone.net> wrote regarding Re: [Wlug] Network Install:
On Friday 10 August 2001 12:21, you wrote:
I freely confess my inexperience.
I have done a number of successful CDROM installs from Mandrake 6.1-7.1-7.2.
I have an old box I scrounged but without a servicable CDROM drive. I want to install Linux on it, but need to do a Network Install. I am not finding detailed documentation on this and will continue to hunt. If anyone has a hint as to where to look or experience to kick me in the pants in the right direction I would be terribly grateful.
I just looked at a Mandrake distro and they include a floppy image for network installation, but without much in the way of documentation.
Create the floppy: dd -if=/mnt/cdrom/images/network.img -of=/dev/fd0 Mount it: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
the ks.cfg contains:
nfs --server 192.168.1.9 --dir /export #url --url ftp://a:a@192.168.1.9//export network --bootproto dhcp
At this point, you're on your own.
Aother poster suggested copying the files to the HDD. There's also a boot floppy on my CD for doing HDD installs.
Let us know how you make out!
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