Yep when you're ready to install. It will work exactly the same as if you
had cdroms in there (except for setting up your network parameters and ftp
site info first).
-s
On Friday 25 May 2001 09:12 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2001, s wrote:
>
> After I do this, I just boot from the floppy?
>
> > Find you a site close by and download the network.img file and direct
> > copy it to a floppy. dd if=network.img of=/dev/fd0 (or is it
> > /mnt/floppy?) make sure you have the exact address to the ftp
> > site/Mandrake directory written down for reference cause it don't hunt
> > for you. This is a pretty cool way to do it, especially for the lazy
> > person (like myself) cause then everytime you need to add something,
> > it'll look on the site instead of asking for cdroms. :-)
> > -s
> > ftp://helios.dii.utk.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/current/i586/images/
> >RE ADME
> >
> > On Friday 25 May 2001 09:22 am, you wrote:
> > > Hi, all.
> > >
> > > I would like to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0. Unfortunately, I don't have a
> > > CD-ROM burner, so I can't just download the ISO and install. Is there
> > > a way to do an installation over a network (from an FTP site, for
> > > example?
> > >
> > > TIA.
