On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 17:13, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >>If you have two machines and a network you can do what I do a lot: put > >>the CD images in an NFS-exported directory on the second machine and > >>then boot off the CD boot image and do and NFS install. > > If only I knew how to do that.. CD-Images?? the RD9 CDs I have are all > files.. > > Besides, our network is mainly Windows.. So... one less option for me.. Um you could set up an ftp or an http server on one of the windows pc. Copy the contents of the entire first disc into a directory named say "MyCopyOfRedhat". Then copy the contents of RedHat/RPMS/*.* from disc 2 and 3 into the dir MyCopyOfRedhat/RedHat/RPMS created by your first disc copy. Make the whole dir available through http or ftp. I mean if somebody types the following in a web browser he should see the full contents or tree of the installation cd. http://192.168.1.50/MyCopyOfRedhat/ Alternatively if you set up an ftp server then ftp://192.168.1.50/MyCopyOfRedhat/ After this you can pop in your RedHat linux boot disk which you have already created and the boot prompt type "linux askmethod". This will bring you to a screen after you have selected language etc which will ask you the following options Local CDROM ------ Not an option for you since CDROM not working Hard Drive ------ Maybe an option if you got the cd images that you downloaded and burned lying around dunno if you can use the full blown image like you can for NFS , HTTP and FTP NFS Image ------ Again not an option since only Windows network like you said HTTP ------ Yes an option finally, if you configured the HTTP server FTP ------ Yes another option if you configured the FTP server Any methods apart from the above ones if they exist someone please tell me then I would like to know also. -- Arindam Dey The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. GPG FPR: B8E3 219E F129 F970 F4A7 BC50 9636 504A BEDF 5739 -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
