On Wednesday 11 February 2004 16:18, ejdodds wrote: > The objective is to install Mandrake on some older machines I've donated to > an elementary school in Berkeley, California. They have no CD-ROM drive > but are connected full time to the Internet via Ethernet throughout the > whole school. I'm using another machine at home to set up the process to do > on the machines at the school. > > The boot floppy works as expected up to actually connecting to a mirror > server, downloading the installer and starting the installation. I've used > the network.img on the DVD I got with Linux Format magazine and from one of > the mirror sites. Both have produced the same result. > > After typing in the full path to the installer file incorrectly the message > came back "Error: file not found" and gives the expected path. After > correcting the path to match that given in the error message it still says > "Error: file not found" even though the path/file name is exactly as the > error message says and the file is visible in that location in a web > browser. The same result has occurred with five different mirror servers > in California, Utah and Pennsylvania so the problem must be something I'm > doing wrong. > > The computer is an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ running in 256MB of RAM on a SOYO > SY-K7VTA Pro Version 1.0 motherboard and a 40GB harddrive. The Internet > connection is full time Earthlink ADSL running through a ZyXEL Prestige 645 > ADSL modem and a D-LINK DI 624 router. The ethernet adaptor is a 3COM or > other brand name. > > Thank you. > > Ned Dodds > > > > > > "...no one stays in the cradle forever."
I'm not quite sure how Mandrake does it but I do know that Slackware (that's the distro I use on old stuff) uses NFS and will NOT allow a CD/DVD-drive to be shared. If you've got the room copy the Mandrake directory somewhere where the permissions aren't too restrictive (like /home/you/ ) and try that as path. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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