First of all, major thanks to Wilhlem and Matt for the help they gave me
making a boot floppy. Telling me about rawrite changed everything - mucho
appreciated.
Now, I have 2 machines networked (one of which has an ADSL to the Net), and
I have Mandrake 6.0 downloaded to one (a pure Win98 machine - no Linux),
and I want to install Mandrake on the other machine. The obvious choice is
an NFS install, so I boot up the machine I want Linux on with bootnet.img,
and take it from there. I's dead easy - kudos Mandrake! The only problem
is, when I specify the IP and directory where Mandrake is, it doesn't work.
I get a very general error back saying it couldn't mount that directory on
that server.
I thought the problem might be that I was saying C:\ instead of hda/, so I
tried the latter, as well as /hda/ and other variants (I don' tknow Unix so
at that point I was flailing). Stuck, I figured rather than limp about for
hours I'd suck it up and do an FTP install instead - since I have ADSL I
figured it'd be doable. but I got the same problem - it didn't like the
IP/path combo.
The FTP path was quite a bit of guesswork - it's unclear to me precisely
what path is expected. I tried several combos but to no avail. Is there
anyone who has experience with doing an NFS install from Windows, or an FTP
isntall, who can tell me what my problem is?
Also, a suggestion for Mandrake - I like the install, but I could really
benefit from some more detailed error info. I'd like to know whether the
problem is my path, or I'm not reaching the Itnernet, or something else.
Thanks!
Chris
