Re: tlug: Installing Linux over a network

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Dave Gutteridge wrote:

> let's say i have a pentium machine, and all it's got is a net card, and a
> hard drive. No keyboard, no mouse, no CD-ROM drive.
> I also have a network which consists of entirely NT and IRIX machines.
> Can i install linux onto the pentium totally by network? My confusion
> starts when i imagine formatting the drive: won't the pentium cease to see
> the network and make it impossible to continue an installation?

you wouldn't even get that far, without a keyboard/mouse.  You could do it
if you had a keyboard and a floppy drive on the machine, though.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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