Re: [newbie] Network install without floppies or CDROMS

2002-02-27 Thread Brian Parish
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

[newbie] Network install without floppies or CDROMS

2002-02-23 Thread Matt Gleeson
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