[aclug-L] Re: Install question

[Jeffrey Hansen <jhansen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

i hope to someday be able to do "gee-wizz" types of projects.  right now
i'm so time impacted that i have trouble figuring out whether to scratch
my watch or wind my backside.  :-)

jeff


On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Craig Terhune wrote:

> 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
> > >
> -- 
> Unwritten man page:
> Understanding Linux thru better medication
> Maintained by Timothy Leary
> 
> 
> 
>