Neal H Walfield wrote: > > > Well, I don't have F3 CD-ROMS; I just have the F3 images. Yes I know > > I was planning to NFS map the CD-ROM images (after mounting them with a > > loopback iso9660 filesystem) from another machine, but I cannot > > configure the network card. > > Why don't you just set up a translator? > > # settrans -acp /f3-main /hurd/isofs $HOME/images/f3-main.iso
Well ... I'd love to. But then I'd have to get the images onto the Hurd machine ... but then I don't have networking. Catch-22 I think. What do you propose? I guess I could establish a serial connection - but what file tranfer software would I run ... or then again there's floppies (but I'm a cheapskate - I think I'd rather buy the CD's). I can see that you presume I'm also running another O/S on this machine, but this is not the case. Still, you've got me thinking. I imagine that if I actually boot from a Debian Linux rescue/root/drivers disk set, I could get networking working, and then I could transfer the files without needing to reserve HDD space for another O/S. Kinda attractive to a cheapskate like me - it would still be cheaper to get networking happenning with what I currently already have. I guess at this point, I'd suggest to Philip Charles that including a couple of extra floppies in the boot floppy set would be fantastic. But I think Philip has to balance this with legitimate concerns about the size of the images and the number of floppies needed. Thanks, Dave McDonald
