Re: installing Linux over a network

From: lk@Aniela.EU.ORG
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 01:16:18 EST


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.

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, tristan wrote:

> 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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