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! --Skip