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. Thanks Colin
It's kind of cheap, but one thing you could do if you don't mind opening your case is toss the hard drive in your existing computer, install/copy the files onto it, and then put it back in the other computer. Failing that, I don't know how Mandrake manages the actual install, but you'll want to edit your /etc/exports file (I forget the exact syntax, but as I recall, it isn't too hard to figure out from the man pages) to include the directory with the sources in it. For security purposes, it's best to share it read-only, especially with NFS. On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Colin Novick 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.
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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
Progress! After a number of failed attempts (what are the odds of 2 toasted 3.5" floppies in a row?) I have produced a network.img for Mandrake, and the network boot believes that it detects the card and can identify it through an exisiting module 3c59x, despite the card not being on anybody's list. Now onto the sticky part. Getting the network connection between the two computers on line to transfer the distro. This is the hard part due to vast inexperience, and the knowledge is also why I am trying in the first place. Thank you all for the moral support. I need it. Colin
I am now staring at a: 3Com Fast Ethernet PCI NIC 3CSOHO100-TX
Yeah, I would be wary of anything labelled "SOHO" since it is probably a dumbed-down version of a decent product.
Sorry I cannot help!
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!
--Skip _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
At 8/13/2001 11:15 AM (Monday), Colin Novick wrote:
I am now staring at a: 3Com Fast Ethernet PCI NIC 3CSOHO100-TX
Yeah, I would be wary of anything labelled "SOHO" since it is probably a dumbed-down version of a decent product. Sorry I cannot help!
At 8/13/2001 07:51 AM (Monday), Colin Novick wrote:
Progress!
Don't forget to stop after those moments of progress and savor the moment. If you take a pause only when you are stumped your time will be filled with negatives and it will drag you down for sure! Good luck!
Hard to correct the source of an error message you don't understand, and can't find elsewhere. During a Network Install of Mandrake Linux 7.2 I get: "SIOCSIFFLAGS Device or resource busy" The only option is to click "ok" or "next", both of which result in a hang you can CTRL-ALT-DEL out of. What does this mean? Also is this at all tied to the computer requesting a Default Gateway IP and Nameserver? I personally doubt it, but I ask in that I have been trying to establish if the gateway is the IP# for the my ISP through the modem on the other machine (The machine gives me default values that are just as poorly recieved.) Thanks, Colin P.S. Below is the distro specific tree of choices that yields this response. It is not necessarily useful to most folks but I include it in the off chance it yields a hint. If the error is out of context I can contextualize it: Method of Install; type of medium: NFS *select* FTP HTTP It auto detects the NIC and proposes a module OK *select* Boot Protocol: Manual *select* DHCP Bootp Config TCP/IP: IP Add 192.168.0.150 Net Mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway IP: 192.168.0.254 (Default Values but have tried others) Name Serv: 192.168.0.1 (Default Values but have tried others)
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