Thanks Matt. As it turns out, I gave up on the NFS install, after
downloading an NFS Server didn't help. So I went to an FTP install over the
net (I couldn't even FTP into the other machine, though I had an FTP server
running). It's underway right now - it took some doing to get the FTP path
right (I had to go jogging and come back to get it to work - talk about
rebooting!) but now it's going.
Thanks for all your help!
Chris
At 11:23 PM 8/17/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Whoops on my part- I thought the "bootnet" image would have an option
>to do an SMB install... that's the protocol Windows uses to share
>directories, not NFS or FTP. Windows does not inherently support
>either of those protocols; you'll need to download a third-party server.
>
>If you have PWS (Personal Web Server) installed on Windows 98, you can
>use the HTTP protocol to install Mandrake. If you right-click on the
>directory, there should be an option called "Web Sharing" (assuming PWS
>is installed). You can then share the directory as, say, "mandrake".
>Then boot the other computer off the floppy, choose "HTTP" when asked,
>and when asked for the server, type the Windows machine's hostname (the
>name that appears in "Network Neighborhood" and /mandrake is the
>path.
>
>If you don't have PWS installed, it is on your Windows 98 CD, under
>/add-ons/pws.
>--
>-Matt Stegman
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>On 17 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> First of all, major thanks to Wilhlem and Matt for the help they gave me
>> making a boot floppy. Telling me about rawrite changed everything - mucho
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Now, I have 2 machines networked (one of which has an ADSL to the Net), and
>> I have Mandrake 6.0 downloaded to one (a pure Win98 machine - no Linux),
>> and I want to install Mandrake on the other machine. The obvious choice is
>> an NFS install, so I boot up the machine I want Linux on with bootnet.img,
>> and take it from there. I's dead easy - kudos Mandrake! The only problem
>> is, when I specify the IP and directory where Mandrake is, it doesn't work.
>> I get a very general error back saying it couldn't mount that directory on
>> that server.
>>
>> I thought the problem might be that I was saying C:\ instead of hda/, so I
>> tried the latter, as well as /hda/ and other variants (I don' tknow Unix so
>> at that point I was flailing). Stuck, I figured rather than limp about for
>> hours I'd suck it up and do an FTP install instead - since I have ADSL I
>> figured it'd be doable. but I got the same problem - it didn't like the
>> IP/path combo.
>>
>> The FTP path was quite a bit of guesswork - it's unclear to me precisely
>> what path is expected. I tried several combos but to no avail. Is there
>> anyone who has experience with doing an NFS install from Windows, or an FTP
>> isntall, who can tell me what my problem is?
>>
>> Also, a suggestion for Mandrake - I like the install, but I could really
>> benefit from some more detailed error info. I'd like to know whether the
>> problem is my path, or I'm not reaching the Itnernet, or something else.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Chris
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