Matt, There was an extensive thread on exactly this a few weeks back. Check out the archives and I think you'll find some useful ideas on various ways of going about this. If you don't find it in the newbie archive, try the expert one. I subscribe to both and can't remember now which it was in.
HTH Brian On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 11:50, Matt Gleeson wrote: > I have a laptop motherboard with a 2.1gig HDD and a PCMCIA NIC and Lucent > WaveLan Silver running Redhat 7.0. The problem I have is that I'm wanting to > install > Mandrake 8.1 on the machine, but it has no CDROM or Floppy drive, so I'd > like to > use the PCMCIA NIC and a NFS or FTP instance of the install disks on another > box, > but I've not had much luck finding any info on the net which doesn't require > floppies > for a network install. The theory I have is if I copy an install image over > to the machine > and point lilo to the image, when asked for the source of the install media > I would specify > FTP/NFS, but I don't know the exact process of going about this and which > images should be > used etc. The NIC is set up and functioning, the whole thing is running, I > just want to install > a different distro on it, I'm sure there's a way, but I cannot figure it out > as yet. > > Thanks in advance, > > -Matt. > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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