Re: tlug: Installing Linux over a network

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Howard Abbey wrote:

> > 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?

boot to what?  I suppose if you had a boot ROM in the network card that
could start a Linux installer or something, but... an EPROM burner is a
lot more expensive than a keyboard and floppy drive :)

> 
> 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,

I don't think they're *that* automatic :)

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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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