On 29-Sep-06 cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:37:56AM +0100, Tim Green wrote:
On 9/29/06, cl@isbd.net cl@isbd.net wrote:
However I now seem to have a reasonably easy/reliable route for installing Suse at least. I have to say that the instructions (or total lack of them) were crap, for it to work you have to know:-
The IP address of the system itself, i.e. it has at least to be on the local subnet. The IP address of the gateway. The IP address of your DNS server.
Crikey! Is the network installation disk so small they cannot afford a simple DHCP client?
Ah, no, not quite true. I don't use DHCP so I had to answer 'no' to that question. :-) You would have to know what DHCP was though.
-- Chris Green (chris@halon.org.uk)
Sorry to come in late on this discussion! The comment I wanted to make is that there's another interpretation of "install over a network" which to my own experience has been around for a good 10 years. You do need a second computer, however.
Namely, in addition to the machine you intend to install on, you have another machine that can read the disks, and you can network the two. All you need (usually) is to prepare a boot floppy and a driver floppy from the disk media, and use these to boot the to-install-on machine while the boot CD/DVD is mounted on the other. When you're asked about network installation, you'll nominate IP addresses for the destination and source computers, and a device path for the source computer, and away you go.
I've installed older versions of SuSE and Red Hat this way, and indeed once (about 10 years ago) used the method to install Red Hat on an old laptop that didn't have a CD drive at all--just an external floppy drive--but did have a PCMCIA slot for an ethernet card. And, now I think back to it, I later used the same method to install Debian on the same machine.
Don't know if this is now relevant, but if it is I hope it helps! Ted.
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