Topic: network install

[hanscees]

dear all,
I have a 486 without a cd drive. Has anyone pulled of a network install with files from another computer?

help0 would be apreciated,

hc

[Charlie Brady]

hanscees wrote:

> dear all, I have a 486 without a cd drive. Has anyone pulled of
> a network install with files from another computer?

Yes, the e-smith development team uses network installs all the time.

You need to make the  CDROM image available via NFS, FTP, SMB or HTTP from another machine on your network. You then need to customise a ks.cfg file on the floppy made from the bootnet.img file, to specify the IP address, protocol, etc of the network install.

As the technical team at e-smith needs to limit the free technical support we provide, in fairness to our supported customers, and in order to work on new developments, you will have to take it from here yourself.

Unless you are an experienced linux user, I would suggest that you just temporarily attach a CDROM drive.

Regards

Charlie