installing Linux over a network
I havent been able to find a way of installing Linux slackware or red hat with out using 90 or more floppies, and i have no cd rom on my 386. Is there a way to install Linux over a network on such an old machine. It currently has windows 3.1 and DOS running. And has one 60 mb hard drive and one 120 mb hard drive. I have found a small easy to install minix 386 that goes over DOS so I may just use that to start off, in order to install a very old linux kernel .01 or .02
Tristan
with slackware you need to NFS export the slakware directory from the CD on one machine.
with slackware 8
the on the 386 boot from the boot disk, then the root disk, then type network and put in the network driver floppy. when the NIC is detected then go through the setup menu and choose the 'install from nfs' option.
e-mail me directly if you have more questions, this is now off-topic for this list.
David Lang
Quoted 22 lines · tristan
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:21:37 -0400
From: tristan <[email protected]>
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Subject: installing Linux over a networkI havent been able to find a way of installing Linux slackware or red hat with out using 90 or more floppies, and i have no cd rom on my 386. Is there a way to install Linux over a network on such an old machine. It currently has windows 3.1 and DOS running. And has one 60 mb hard drive and one 120 mb hard drive. I have found a small easy to install minix 386 that goes over DOS so I may just use that to start off, in order to install a very old linux kernel .01 or .02
Tristan
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The base debian install takes only 12 floppies or so.
If you have a network card that works in linux you can install the base system over the network, then you only need 4 floppies or so.
-Justin
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I havent been able to find a way of installing Linux slackware or red hat with out using 90 or more floppies, and i have no cd rom on my 386. Is there a way to install Linux over a network on such an old machine. It currently has windows 3.1 and DOS running. And has one 60 mb hard drive and one 120 mb hard drive. I have found a small easy to install minix 386 that goes over DOS so I may just use that to start off, in order to install a very old linux kernel .01 or .02
Tristan
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I installed RedHat 7.1 using one floppy and a network card. use rawrite and image boot.net to make the floppy.
I don't know if It's possible to install rh7.1 in 120MB though.
Fred
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I havent been able to find a way of installing Linux slackware or red hat with out using 90 or more floppies, and i have no cd rom on my 386. Is there a way to install Linux over a network on such an old machine. It currently has windows 3.1 and DOS running. And has one 60 mb hard drive and one 120 mb hard drive. I have found a small easy to install minix 386 that goes over DOS so I may just use that to start off, in order to install a very old linux kernel .01 or .02
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If you use slackware, you can install it over nfs. you will need another machine connectted to your machine which exports the directory where you're slackware packages are.
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I havent been able to find a way of installing Linux slackware or red hat with out using 90 or more floppies, and i have no cd rom on my 386. Is there a way to install Linux over a network on such an old machine. It currently has windows 3.1 and DOS running. And has one 60 mb hard drive and one 120 mb hard drive. I have found a small easy to install minix 386 that goes over DOS so I may just use that to start off, in order to install a very old linux kernel .01 or .02
Tristan
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Ypu can install slackware via NFS, and RH via ftp.
Both procedures are quite aesy and work great.
just export NFS the slakware directory containing the packages series, and then prepare the canonical two floppy and another floppy containing the "network" image.
For RH, just put the distribution on a pc where you can access trought ftp, it does not matter if it is as a regular user or as anonymous. Pay atention with the correct path to begin RH installation.
Hope you wil be successfull
Luigi
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I havent been able to find a way of installing Linux slackware or red hat with out using 90 or more floppies, and i have no cd rom on my 386. Is there a way to install Linux over a network on such an old machine. It currently has windows 3.1 and DOS running. And has one 60 mb hard drive and one 120 mb hard drive. I have found a small easy to install minix 386 that goes over DOS so I may just use that to start off, in order to install a very old linux kernel .01 or .02
Tristan
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