Trent M. Gunnarson wrote: > On Wednesday 02 October 2002 11:38, Buchan Milne wrote:
>>No need to download ISOs also, do an HD install ... make a boot floppy >>from the hd.img, boot it up, and install ... > > > That would work if we're only talking about installing on one machine. I have > half a dozen in my home alone, not all of them are networked. I was meaning do one hd install, and then you should be able to test if you can create the ISOs on that machine .... > I'm also > providing cd sets to friends to convert them to Mandrake. My Firewall/LAN > server is a Mandrake 8.2 stock install w/ updates and it holds my data > repository for the home network. The NFS install went alright once I got past > the hurdle of 'not resolving hostname' or some such message that stopped > things before they got started. Security issue ... you don't want it to be otherwise ... > I had to plug in my ISP's DNS in order to do > an NFS install on a private home network (Class C) using DHCP and a caching > nameserver ? You haven't got reverse lookups working, you should add all your internal hosts to the hosts file on your NFS server, or setup DNS. I love Mandrake and brag to everyone I know about its merits > versus the 4 other distros I've used, but the smoothest install still seems > to be using your release cd set. Network installs work just fine, we do that hear on stable releases ... > I just have to stop grumbling every time it > asks me to switch cds :-) Especially in the light of all the trouble I've had > in the last 2 weeks trying to create those self-same ISOs from the package > mirror on a Mandrake 8.2 system :-/ > -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
