> from ftp server which has cdrom . After choosing it asks me for LAN card
> module . I have realtek card and it is working fine on other machine it
got
> deteded automatically.Now in menu it shows the card that is ne2000
compliant
> card when I press ok it shows unable to insert module.When I chose to
apply

first of all in the ftp server all contents of all the cds should be
available in one
folder.  We achieve this by imaging the cds into the hdd, then loop mounting
and then creating sym links to folders and files inside the CD.

how we do it
--------------
mkdir /home/cdbackup
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/cdbackup/redhat-cd1.iso bs=1M
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/cdbackup/redhat-cd2.iso bs=1M
mkdir /home/cdbackup/cd1
mkdir /home/cdbackup/cd2
mkdir /var/ftp/pub/RedHat
mkdir /var/ftp/pub/RedHat/RPMS
mount -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop0 /home/cdbackup/redhat-cd1.iso
/home/cdbackup/cd1
mount -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop1 /home/cdbackup/redhat-cd2.iso
/home/cdbackup/cd2

ln -s /home/cdbackup/cd1/RedHat/base /var/ftp/pub/RedHat/base
cd /home/cdbackup/cd1/RedHat/RPMS
for i in *.rpm;do ln -s `pwd`/$i /var/ftp/pub/RedHat/RPMS/$i; done
cd /home/cdbackup/cd2/RedHat/RPMS
for i in *.rpm;do ln -s `pwd`/$i /var/ftp/pub/RedHat/RPMS/$i; done
----------------
Now start the ftp service
----------------

for doing the ftp install, the bootnet.img and drivers.img is needed that is
two floppies,  and when system prompts for driver disc, provide the one with
drivers image.  RealTek will load automatically from the second disk.

the ftp install script looks for /RedHat/base and /RedHat/RPMS for the
installation rpms with respect to the ftp folder specified.  In our office
we find this to be a faster way when compared with the install from CD.


jtm



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