On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:23:19AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > >10x, > >yes, thats sounds good, i would like to get the image. > >and i don't need openoffice. > > > You'll have to remove it yourself, for the time being. > > >i have 24mb ram though. > >also, how do i dump the image via the ethernet connection? because last > >time, it > >took me 2 days to set the external cdrom driver working. > > > Tricky. Set up an HTTP or FTP server, and connect to it using the > "network install" boot disk of some distro. > Personally, I suggest you compile netcat statically (so it has no > external dependancies). Get it to your computer using FTP. Then, format > and mount the partitions you need, cd to the proposed new root, and do > "nc -l -p 12345 | tar xvzf -". On the other computer, do "nc > 172.24.15.132 12345 < image.tgz". This way you won't need temporary > storage for the tar file, which may prove more than your computer can > hold (both tar and extracted images).
Grab Tom's Root-Boot floppy. Has nc, tar, relatively good network card support (including laptops). a minimal dhcp client is included. it even has 'man'. Should have nfs support, but I never tried it. It doesn't support reiserfs, though. ext3 will have to do... -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
