Re: Linux network install w/o floppy or CDROM

["Santosh Pasi" <spasi diskonnet com>]

Hi Matt,

Use pcmcia.img, to make boot floopy and try.  Make sure there is support for 
your pcmcia NIC.

Regards,
Santosh  Pasi



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From: "Matt Gleeson" <m_gleeson dingoblue net au>
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>Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:46:13 +1000
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>I have a laptop motherboard with a 2.1gig HDD and a PCMCIA NIC and Lucent 
WaveLan Silver running Redhat 7.0. The problem I have is that I'm wanting to do 
is re-install the machine with a later Kernal/more complete install (as what's on 
there is fairly minimal), but it has no CDROM or Floppy drive, so I'd like to use the 
PCMCIA NIC and a NFS or FTP instance of the install disks on another box, but 
I've not had much luck finding any info on the net which doesn't require floppies 
for a network install. The theory I have is if I copy an install image over to the 
machine and point lilo to the image, when asked for the source of the install 
media I would specify FTP/NFS, but I don't know the exact process of going 
about this and which images should be used etc. The NIC is set up and 
functioning, the whole thing is running, I'm sure there's a way, but I cannot figure it 
out as yet.
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>Thanks in advance,
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>-Matt.
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