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.
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