by Black » Wed, 15 Sep 1999 04:00:00
My question : How do I install linux on a pentium 90 computer which has no
modem, and no cd-rom, it only has a network card. Please help me.
Orrin Jolly
by Jon Ske » Wed, 15 Sep 1999 04:00:00
> My question : How do I install linux on a pentium 90 computer which has no
> modem, and no cd-rom, it only has a network card. Please help me.
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by Gary W. Sandvi » Wed, 15 Sep 1999 04:00:00
You will need to create a boot disk with network support. If you have a scsi
based system then you might try scsi.i. If an IDE based system then use
net.i. The color.gz is a generic rootdisk choice.
Once you have booted the kernel and did your disk partition work then select
setup and do a NFS install. Oh! You might want to be sure to setup NFS
shares on the networked Win/9X system. The easiest I've found is using the
OMNI-4 NFS server software. You can download this from shareware.com, do a
search at shareware.com for NFS then select the OMNI-NFS server software. It
is Shareware and a really nice interface, simple to setup.
Once you have the NFS shares, the install is straight forward and the speed
is dependent on your network. I've done several installs this way without a
hitch.
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Gary
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309-676-0224 (fax)
Quote:> Hi, I currently have a windows 98 machine, and a pent 90 with DOS. I was
> wondering if it was possible to install linux on the DOS computer through
a
> network. Does the network have to be set up first? The hub and all the
other
> stuff are set up, but stuff like samba are not in place since linux isnt
> installed yet.
> My question : How do I install linux on a pentium 90 computer which has no
> modem, and no cd-rom, it only has a network card. Please help me.
> Orrin Jolly
by Black » Wed, 15 Sep 1999 04:00:00
Orrin Jolly
> You will need to create a boot disk with network support. If you have a
scsi
> based system then you might try scsi.i. If an IDE based system then use
> net.i. The color.gz is a generic rootdisk choice.
> Once you have booted the kernel and did your disk partition work then
select
> setup and do a NFS install. Oh! You might want to be sure to setup NFS
> shares on the networked Win/9X system. The easiest I've found is using the
> OMNI-4 NFS server software. You can download this from shareware.com, do a
> search at shareware.com for NFS then select the OMNI-NFS server software.
It
> is Shareware and a really nice interface, simple to setup.
> Once you have the NFS shares, the install is straight forward and the
speed
> is dependent on your network. I've done several installs this way without
a
> hitch.
> --
> Regards and God Speed,
> Gary
> Gary W. Sandvik
> 309-676-0224 (fax)
> > Hi, I currently have a windows 98 machine, and a pent 90 with DOS. I was
> > wondering if it was possible to install linux on the DOS computer
through
> a
> > network. Does the network have to be set up first? The hub and all the
> other
> > stuff are set up, but stuff like samba are not in place since linux isnt
> > installed yet.
> > My question : How do I install linux on a pentium 90 computer which has
no
> > modem, and no cd-rom, it only has a network card. Please help me.
> > Orrin Jolly
by Kenny A. Chaff » Wed, 15 Sep 1999 04:00:00
get a cheap cd-rom.Quote:> Hi, I currently have a windows 98 machine, and a pent 90 with DOS. I was
> wondering if it was possible to install linux on the DOS computer through a
> network. Does the network have to be set up first? The hub and all the other
> stuff are set up, but stuff like samba are not in place since linux isnt
> installed yet.
> My question : How do I install linux on a pentium 90 computer which has no
> modem, and no cd-rom, it only has a network card. Please help me.
> Orrin Jolly
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by Leonard Even » Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:00:00
> says...
> > Hi, I currently have a windows 98 machine, and a pent 90 with DOS. I was
> > wondering if it was possible to install linux on the DOS computer through a
> > network. Does the network have to be set up first? The hub and all the other
> > stuff are set up, but stuff like samba are not in place since linux isnt
> > installed yet.
> > My question : How do I install linux on a pentium 90 computer which has no
> > modem, and no cd-rom, it only has a network card. Please help me.
> > Orrin Jolly
> get a cheap cd-rom.
> or borrow it out of another machine for the install....
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> Custom Programming, Web Design, and Graphics
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by Eric Y. Cha » Fri, 17 Sep 1999 04:00:00
: Hi, I currently have a windows 98 machine, and a pent 90 with DOS. I was
: wondering if it was possible to install linux on the DOS computer through a
: network. Does the network have to be set up first? The hub and all the other
: stuff are set up, but stuff like samba are not in place since linux isnt
: installed yet.
: My question : How do I install linux on a pentium 90 computer which has no
: modem, and no cd-rom, it only has a network card. Please help me.
: Orrin Jolly
by Jayan » Thu, 23 Sep 1999 04:00:00
The ftp server must be able to read the 'long file name information'
on the CD, AFAIK.
I have done this with the RH CD mounted on a linux machine on the
network, but win98 scares me..
Jayan
> Hi, I currently have a windows 98 machine, and a pent 90 with DOS. I was
> wondering if it was possible to install linux on the DOS computer through a
> network. Does the network have to be set up first? The hub and all the other
> stuff are set up, but stuff like samba are not in place since linux isnt
> installed yet.
> My question : How do I install linux on a pentium 90 computer which has no
> modem, and no cd-rom, it only has a network card. Please help me.
> Orrin Jolly
by Kenny McCorma » Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:00:00
As another poster alluded to, the glitch here is that the WINDOW~1 machineQuote:>if you can get an ftp server set up on the 98 machine and have
>it's IP address, and a Redhat boot disk with the ftp-install
>option, and a supported network card, you can do an install
>by ftp.. choose the ftp-install option and give the ip-address
>and root directory for the linux image on your 98 machine
>(probably a CD).
>The ftp server must be able to read the 'long file name information'
>on the CD, AFAIK.
>I have done this with the RH CD mounted on a linux machine on the
>network, but win98 scares me..
Since the Redmond monster is not likely to budge on this, the best long term
solution may well be for Linux CD makers to start using Joliet. In the
short term, you probably will have to run Linux on the FTP server.
Fortunately, this is not difficult, using something like Tom's Root/Boot.
Anyway, that's how I did my last "install to a machine w/o a CD drive". I
booted Tom'sRTBT on a spare Win98 machine, put the CD in the drive and,
Presto!, you've got an FTP server that handles Rock Ridge.
by Jayan » Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:00:00
Jayan
> >if you can get an ftp server set up on the 98 machine and have
> >it's IP address, and a Redhat boot disk with the ftp-install
> >option, and a supported network card, you can do an install
> >by ftp.. choose the ftp-install option and give the ip-address
> >and root directory for the linux image on your 98 machine
> >(probably a CD).
> >The ftp server must be able to read the 'long file name information'
> >on the CD, AFAIK.
> >I have done this with the RH CD mounted on a linux machine on the
> >network, but win98 scares me..
> As another poster alluded to, the glitch here is that the WINDOW~1 machine
> will probably not support the Rock Ridge encoded Linux distribution CD.
> Since the Redmond monster is not likely to budge on this, the best long term
> solution may well be for Linux CD makers to start using Joliet. In the
> short term, you probably will have to run Linux on the FTP server.
> Fortunately, this is not difficult, using something like Tom's Root/Boot.
> Anyway, that's how I did my last "install to a machine w/o a CD drive". I
> booted Tom'sRTBT on a spare Win98 machine, put the CD in the drive and,
> Presto!, you've got an FTP server that handles Rock Ridge.
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Many thanks.
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