remote installation

2004-01-31 Thread kemal asad
I have a quite curious problem to solve. i have a computer overseaswith hd (no os) and floppy drive no cdrom . it is connected to a network . i want to install linux on it. but i only have an idiot in that location that can put a floppy in the drive and power it up. if anyone has a suggestion.on ho

Re: remote installation

2001-11-09 Thread pjordan
> What I'm trying to do is access the PC remotely and set it up from > there. According to the normal installation, I would have to configure > the network card as part of the install (which would be impossible). Not imposssible. Look for the linuxcare business card cd. You can download it I

Re: remote installation

2001-11-09 Thread Tom Allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is somewhat out of date, being used with potato installation disks, > but here is the way I used to do it: > > http://www.blackwire.com/remote.install > > That is a pod document. > > Peter > > >>I guess my question is this: >>if I can get Linux running from a

remote installation

2001-11-06 Thread Tom Allison
I'm not sure where to begin, so I thought I would start here. What am I doing? I have a computer located some 1,500 miles away that is at my disposal... It has a /dev/hda, a cdrom, one NIC, and just about nothing else of significance. There is 128MB of RAM. I am trying to put together a flopp