On Fri, 25 May 2001, s wrote:
After I do this, I just boot from the floppy?
> Find you a site close by and download the network.img file and direct copy
> it to a floppy. dd if=network.img of=/dev/fd0 (or is it /mnt/floppy?)
> make sure you have the exact address to the ftp site/Mandrake directory
> written down for reference cause it don't hunt for you. This is a pretty
> cool way to do it, especially for the lazy person (like myself) cause then
> everytime you need to add something, it'll look on the site instead of
> asking for cdroms. :-)
> -s
> ftp://helios.dii.utk.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/current/i586/images/RE
>ADME
>
> On Friday 25 May 2001 09:22 am, you wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > I would like to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0. Unfortunately, I don't have a
> > CD-ROM burner, so I can't just download the ISO and install. Is there a
> > way to do an installation over a network (from an FTP site, for example?
> >
> > TIA.
