Re: tlug: Installing Linux over a network

[Howard Abbey <habbey@example.com>]

> On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> > 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?

Scott Stone wrote:
> 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.

Even if the BIOS was set up to ignore the fact that there wasn't a 
keyboard and boot anyway?

Thinking out loud...  If you make a Linux distribution available via
ftp,
don't most / any distributions allow you to set up a configuration file
for
multiple installs?  How automatic are these?  If they are boot and let
go,
why would you need a keyboard or mouse?  To set up the config file,
probably
the minimal Linux available from a floppy or two running on a NT machine 
would be enough.  (I have absolutely no idea, just guessing here...)

If the network connection is provided by stuff either on a floppy or in
a
ram-disk, along with the rest of the basic starting OS, formatting the 
hard disk wouldn't be your problem, I don't think.
-- 
Howard
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