Despite the sideline on Macintosh distributions, I think no one actually
answered your original question. Yes, you can install over the network. I
believe Red Hat supports install via NFS, but not being a Red Hat user, I
don't have the exact details. There is an NFS HowTo, and it will show you
how to set up exportable partitions on a server with a CD-ROM drive.
Basically, assuming the server has NFS running (does "ps -ax" list rpc.nfsd
and rpc.mountd?), you add a line in /etc/exports allowing everybody on your
LAN to mount the cd (a line something like "/cdrom/somedirectory
192.168.23.0/255.255.255.0", replacing somedirectory with wherever Red Hat
expects to find the files during an install).
Then during the install process on the client, the RH installer will at some
point give you choices about method of installation, one choice being via
NFS - you choose that, supply an IP address plus the usual network stuff,
and you're off.
Some distributions also support installation via ftp, but I don't know if RH
is one of them.
Apologies in advance if I got some details wrong here, but this is the
general idea. An actual Red Hat user will have to correct my errors.
At 10:45 AM 4/1/99 -0800, Tom Taylor wrote:
>Hi all:
>I've heard that it's possible to install linux (RH5.2) over a network on a
>computer w/o a CD-ROM but have not been able to find information in the
>HOWTOs or other places that I know of. Would someone please point me to a
>location to find the information so I can look it up.
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