Thanx guys, the thing is i got this old laptop, and i thought of trying to discover what net install is all about. It is quite old (Pentium III), and so getting it extra peripheral h/w isn't worth it. I didn't wish to use TFTP because it took me 4 days to set things up here in the office with the dhcp, dns and whatever other servers. To be honest, i only vaguely understand what goes around and wouldn't want to touch them ever again as long as they work. I'm not an admin, and only wish to do the minimal amount of administration work needed to get the job done.
I guess i'll find me another network to mess around with (probably my home network!!), where if the internet connection is lost, i don't have a gazzilion people glaring at me and demanding their internet connection while sharpening the forks and lighting the torches!! Another question that crossed my mind. Here at work i have 4 Ubuntu machines, and whenever i want to update the packages i need to d/l the entire update from the net, is there a way to make one of the machines act like a package cache for the rest? Thanx for the help and offers. On 3/12/07, Abd Al-fattah Abu Dhair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello man > > I have an enclosure that you can use as an external CD, i can arrange it > for you > > On 3/11/07, Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I have a Toshiba Portege laptop which i want to install linux on. The > only > > problem is that there is no cd-rom or floppy devices on the laptop. It > does > > support booting with Intel PXE sala6a, but the wiki i read required that > i > > have a second windows machine with TFTP installed. Is that seriously > needed? > > is there another way to do it? cause i finally got the network to work > like > > i want after a 4 day battle, so i REALLY don't wish to mess with the dns > and > > dhcp servers. > > > > -- > > Al-Faisal El-Dajani > > Phone: +962-7-77 799 781 > > P.O Box: 140056 > > 11814 Amman, Jordan > > > > > > > > -- > Best Regards > > Abd Al-fattah J. Abu Dhair > Networks Security Engineer > +962 79 5512127 > > > > -- Al-Faisal El-Dajani Phone: +962-7-77 799 781 P.O Box: 140056 11814 Amman, Jordan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
