John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, Jake McHenry wrote:
> > I just got my new linux box and am eager to get things rolling. I was following
> > the list the past few days about installing without a cdrom drive. I have the
> > same problem. I've worked with linux for about 3 years now, and this is the
> > first time I'm installing other than with the actual cd. I saw in the list that
> > I can put in the cd and ftp from the installing machine. I have my ftp client up
> > and running and pointing at my cdrom drive, *note the machine with cd is win98*,
> > and can ftp in and see cd. Now my question is, something else I've never done is
> > boot from floppy, do I just boot from floppy and ftp to the win box? If that's
> > it, how do I start the install program? Sorry if this is an easy one. And please
> > get back to me soon, I want to get this thing running!.
> >
> I'm not sure you can do that with a Win98 box, unless
> you're using an FTP server software on the Win98 box. Try
> downloading a shareware FTP client and see if you can get
> it up and running on the Windows machine. If that works,
> make the Network Install disk (there should be a disk image
> and a dos util to create the floppy) and select "FTP
> install." Should work fine as long as you permit FTP into
> your Windows box.
Recently I installed RH 6.2 on a computer without CD drive and having
already Win98 on it. RH manuals said that was needed to *copy* RH CD
onto a Win98 folder, from where the installation program will get files.
Of course, Linux boot diskettes were needed to start the install
program. When finished, I got dual-boot system Win98/Linux.
Well, my hard disks are not big, so on the other similar machine with
Win98 already installed, I plan to remove Win98 partition at first.
After doing that, there won't be a partition to copy RH CD to. So, I
wonder how to install RH 6.2 on a machine without both CD drive and no
operating system installed. I think once I read about the network
installation from the other machine running Linux (but also w/o CD)?
Misko
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