"Liam R. E. Quin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 05:54, Guy.Bormann wrote: > > At the moment MandrakeSoft is struggling to increase its revenue from > > boxed sets so promoting free downloads is the least of their worries ;-) > > I know. And yes, I am a "silver club member" :-) > > However, that shouldn't stop Mandrake from wanting to be better! Also, > maybe network installs will typically use less bandwidth than people > downloading three CD-ROM images! > > Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you have a patch suggestion? > > It's 6am and I didn't sleep, but I'll try. Maybe add something like,
Actually, the information is duplicated from "INSTALL.txt" in the root directory so I've reduced the README of /images to refer to it. > Network Install > > Use the network,img to create a boot floppy you can use to install > Mandrake Linux over the network. You can install from a local NFS > mirror, or using ftp or HTTP. You will need the name of the server > and the Mandrake directory that contains the "base" file, e.g. for > ftp that might be ftp.some-mirror.org and th directory might be > /pub/mirrors/Mandrake/8.3/i586/mandrake/Mandrake > > After booting, you will also be prompted to configure the network, > and the installe will then be downloaded. > > After the installer has been downloaded over the network, installation > is exactly the same as with a CD-ROM, except that packages are > downloaded as needed. I think we can use these explanations but I don't know if this is really mandatory. It seems pretty straightforward that to install from nfs/ftp/http you will need the name of the server, directory, etc :-). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
