On Thu, 7 May 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> Our goal is to setup a number of small Debian systems, fairly small and
> simple, on old 486's to use as routers. These each have 8M memory,
> Ethernet, and a small hard disk; no CDROM.
> [We have a portable CDROM (Mountain), but couldn't find a Linux Driver for
> it]
>
> I want to confirm if I understand the easiest way to do this;
>
> 1) install base system from floppies; then install rest over network.
> -- Base system includes networking and FTP?
> -- Can we FTP from a CDROM on another local system?
> -- I presume it could it be a W95 FTP server?
>
> 2) physically move the target hard disk to a support system, and run the
> install process there, and then unplug and move back.
> -- Is the install in any way localized to the installing system?
> -- it would be a different disk position, different procesor (Pentium
> vs. 486)
>
> We tried #2, and had some odd problems, unsure of the origin.
> Thanks for any comments or suggestions.
I've done 1) by mounting the CDROM on another linux box and it went quite
smoothly. I would think a Win95 ftp server should be able to do it as
well.
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