Jamie O'Shaughnessy wrote:
>
> Can anyone suggest a way to install SuSE on a machine with not CD? It is on
> a network which has got a SuSE 6 Linux box on (with a CD). In the manual it
> says you can install from an FTP site or NFS. Will sharing my CD drive from
> my existing machine, over NFS work? What about when it needs to change CD?
> I assume to install from NFS or FTP you need images of all the CDs
> available and you won't be able to share a CD in this way?
The way I have been doing this is by ftp, using a valid user's name on
the server. I mount the cdrom on the Linux machine, start the install
with the floppy on the client, choose ftp, use my login on the server
and type /cdrom for the install directory. Works very well.
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