Re: Install Linux from ftp-server... not work??

From: Rob Compton (ukj.didwtr@ltu-touristik.com)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 00:08:31 EEST

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    From: Richard Adams <pdrtrh@compugame.dk>
    To: <xznxxy.irpljgsngh@whoi.edu>
    Sent: 05 July 2000 19:20
    Subject: Re: Install Linux from ftp-server... not work??

    > On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Håkan Larsson wrote about, Install Linux from
    ftp-server... not work??:
    > > Hello.
    > >
    > > I am trying to install linux on a computer how do not have any cd-rom
    reader.
    > > I have the RH6.0 disk on a ftp-server RH6.0 and try to install over my
    > > network.
    > >
    > > I can se the transfering via "tcpdump" on the ftp-server but all stops
    after
    > > the "stage2.img" is loaded in to the installing maskin. And then the
    hole
    > > thing just stoped. I still se the text "Loading second stage ramdisk. .
    ."
    > > after the loading is finished.
    > >
    > > What do I do wrong??
    >
    > To be honest i dont know, i have never installed via ftp. however, if your
    > system is trying to "load" the second stage ramdisk then i would think
    > something is "really wrong".

    I tried the same thing with Definite Linux V7 (a RH-6 clone). And I got the
    same result.

    >
    > On another note, if you have netwrok access why not use NFS to install the
    > new distribution.
    >
    > Simply create the bootdisk sets, start the computer with the disk sets and
    > select NFS install.
    >
    > You will need to export the cdrom on the source "machine" in /etc/exports.
    > And have nfs started on that machine.
    >
    > I quite often use NFS to install on new computers which dont have cdroms.
    > If you need more help on a NFS install mail me, i cant garentee success
    > with redhat 6.0 as i myself use slackware, however the principle is the
    > same.
    >
    NFS is OK if your other machine is set up as a NFS server. My other machine
    runs Win98 (yuk! blue screen!), and NFS server software is difficult to
    find, and hard to justify paying upwards of $120 for, unless anyone knows of
    a good NFS server for Win95/98. There are a few for NT.

    In the end I found one that runs for 15 days as a trial, and used it to
    install Slackware 7 which now works a treat.

    > >
    > > Vy73 de Hakan
    > --
    > Regards Richard
    > terhi.victor@logonet.com
    > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/

    Regards

    Rob G1ZPU
    thneex@charitydays.co.uk 

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