RE: tlug: install to no-CD notebook

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Micheal Cooper wrote:

> useradd, passwd, and shutdown commands in Linux. Red Hat 5.1 is doing fine
> on my 200MMX server. I am surprised at how good X looks. Once I get to the
> point where I can use Linux, I will use a serial or parallel connection to
> install on the 486.

Wait a minute.  You have Linux running on another machine?  Is this
machine on a network?  If it is, then things have just gotten a lot
simpler.  Get an Ethernet PC card for your notebook, give it an IP address
on your network, plug it into the hub, and do an FTP install or NFS
install (does Red Hat support NFS install?), with the Linux CD in the
CDROM drive on the other machine.

> I agree that it is probably more trouble than its worth, and I thank you for
> the information. The serial connection load of install files sounds
> possible, though, since my 95 system takes up 95 of 200 MB, and since I have

That's not much disk space, though.  If you want to run Linux on that
notebook, zap Windows 95 and give the whole 200 meg to Linux.  Even that
will be a fairly small installation.


Jonathan Byrne -- Engineering Division <jq@example.com>
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