Topic: Network based install

[Sean Stratton]

I have just been gifted a bunch of old PC's with no CD-ROMs and would like to install SME as a testbed in a few of them. I intend to use them only as file and web servers. I could install a CD drive in them and set them up one at a time but I would like to use there network cards to do an install.
Is it possible to install 5.6 from a remote location?

Sean

[Marc SIBERT]

Should be OK, if you create the right diskette using bootnet.img. In fact I try to use a FTP server to serve the rest of the CD-ROM but my comp. hang during loading of netstg1.img.
What about some other users ?
Any idea ?

Regards,

Marc
marc@sibert.com

[Marc SIBERT]

Now I am one step ahead (trouble between NIC and my hub) but I have an error after running Anaconda, some files are not found.

Marc

[geeze]

I can't say I've tried it in the recently. But in the past I could not get the FTP install to work under 4.x but was able to install via HTTP: and temporaily installed apache on a windows box and went with out a hitch

geeze

[Abe Loveless]

I just posted this howto this week.

It pretty much walks you right through the whole process.

http://216.125.202.107/toot/tutorials/SME_net_install/