[ale] Network Install

Gary Maltzen maltzen at mm.com
Tue Sep 28 17:27:32 EDT 1999


RedHat (for example) can be installed over the net; I've done it many times
(although it works better when I have a local FTP source).

You can download and rawrite the two 1.44 floppy images, boot the install
and switch to the PCMCIA root and select your favorite FTP site as the
install source.

Find a suitable mirror

  http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html

then from directory redhat-6.0/i386/images download

  bootnet.img
  pcmcia.img

rawrite/dd these to floppy, boot the bootnet floppy and follow the
instructions...

----- Original Message -----
 From: Jim Williams <dalavon at yahoo.com>

> I have a laptop that does not have a CD-ROM.  I want
> to do an install and I thought somewhere once I saw a
> network install HOWTO or I saw it in another HOWTO but
> I have not been able to find it.  Can anyone point me
> in the right direction or is there another way I can
> get Linux on this machine?






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