[aclug-L] Re: Install question

[Craig Terhune <craigter@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've done it both ways but if I can figure out how to do a ftp or nfs install
anyone can.  It's good practice
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> I'm probably being a bit simplistic in my personal approach to this
> problem, but what I would do is simply remove the CD from the other
> machine, do the install (or transfer the files to the hard drive) and
> proceed from there.  After the installation is complete it should be a
> trivial task to return the hardware to normal config.  Am I missing
> something?
> 
> jeff
> 
> 
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Wayne White wrote:
> 
> > At 11:45 PM 01/17/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> > >It should be easy with the CD in a Linux machine--you can either set up an
> > >FTP server on that machine, and then install Debian over the network via 
> > >FTP
> > >just as though you were running a standard Debian mirror.  Alternately (and
> > >probably less desireable) you could set up an NFS server, and access the CD
> > >over NFS--this is probably slower and harder to set up than the FTP option,
> > >though.
> > >
> > >
> > Great, will the Debian boot disk have an ftp client on it to use? Will I 
> > need
> > to assign an IP to the new machine so that it can ftp over the LAN? If so,
> > how?
> > Having only installed Red Hat before, I am feeling a little overwhelmed by 
> > the
> > Debian install. I really would like to give Debian a try though.
> > 
> > Thanks for the help,
> > 
> > Wayne
> >
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