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by **George Fraze** » Sat, 19 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Hi

Does anyone know if there is a faq anywhere that could help me install RH
5.1 from a Win95 machine to another pc via a network . I am new to this
and haveing some problems.

Many thanks in advance.

George Frazer

by **Alexander van Luijpe** » Mon, 21 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Try running an FTP server on the win95 machine (Personal Web Server should
contain ftp)

>Hi

>Does anyone know if there is a faq anywhere that could help me install RH
>5.1 from a Win95 machine to another pc via a network . I am new to this
>and haveing some problems.

>Many thanks in advance.

>George Frazer

by **Dan Sheeha** » Wed, 23 Dec 1998 04:00:00

I have never done it, but I have noticed that the installation method for
RedHat allows you to draw the source from several places. I am pretty sure
one of them is a SMB share. What I would do would be to share your CD-ROM
off you 95 machine and boot the soon to be linux box off the diskettes you
made off the CD (can be done from a command prompt in 95) and tell it to get
the CD from the share on the 95 machine (assuming you have a network card in
the linux box that is natively supported). In theory it should work. As I
said though I have never done a SMB installation. FTP is much faster I
think. :)

Dan.

>Hi

>Does anyone know if there is a faq anywhere that could help me install RH
>5.1 from a Win95 machine to another pc via a network . I am new to this
>and haveing some problems.

>Many thanks in advance.

>George Frazer

by **Terry Eas** » Thu, 31 Dec 1998 04:00:00

>I have never done it, but I have noticed that the installation method for
>RedHat allows you to draw the source from several places. I am pretty sure
>one of them is a SMB share. What I would do would be to share your CD-ROM
>off you 95 machine and boot the soon to be linux box off the diskettes you
>made off the CD (can be done from a command prompt in 95) and tell it to
get
>the CD from the share on the 95 machine (assuming you have a network card
in
>the linux box that is natively supported). In theory it should work. As I
>said though I have never done a SMB installation. FTP is much faster I
>think. :)

The only problem here is the format of the cd. w95 does not see the long
filenames on the cd that is required by the installation programs. You
basically need a linux box to create the files on the win95 machine (chicken
and egg ? ). One way is to find someone with linux installed and loan them
your hard disk with fat installed already. They can mount the drive and
create the directory structure required for you.
This file system can then either be mounted as an smb share or via ftp if
you can run an ftp server on your win95 box. I think that there is one
available free for download from microsoft.com (personal webserver - which
also comes with frontpage 97/98)

Hope this helps
Terry

>Dan.

>>Hi

>>Does anyone know if there is a faq anywhere that could help me install RH
>>5.1 from a Win95 machine to another pc via a network . I am new to this
>>and haveing some problems.

>>Many thanks in advance.

>>George Frazer

by **Bertie Pric** » Mon, 04 Jan 1999 04:00:00

If you have enough drive space, and if you run fat16 then xcopy the redhat
directory and rawrite as well as the 2 boot images from the cd to your
win95 drive. Use fips to free up and create a free partition if you dont
already have one. The create the boot disks using rawrite and the images
you copied from the cd. Boot with the linux diskettes and choose "install
from hard drive" when prompted by menu's. Point the
source to /redhat on the dos drive and it will do the installation.

Good Luck .... Bertie

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