On Monday 28 January 2002 19:16, you wrote: Actually I've done local network installs and they are really not slow at all, unless you are splitting hairs with a stopwatch or something like that. The difference is not that great.
The network boot disk image is included with the Mandrake 8.1 cd distribution. It's on disk 1. What this requires (for a local install) is that you have a desktop machine running Linux on a local network, (i.e., plugged into a 10baseT hub) with accessibility to it's CDrom via either ftp or NFS. Of course you also need a compatible PCMCIA network card in the laptop. Then you plug your network card into the 10baseT hub, then boot the laptop from the network floppy. You may have to fiddle the desktop machine to give the laptop proper access to the desktop machine's cdrom drive. However once that's done, you're off and running. There is another alternative that I resorted to when I had a similar laptop problem where the machine was ancient. What you can do is to extract the hard drive from the old laptop, and get an adapter for the drive that allows it to be plugged into a standard IDE cable. Then you hook the drive into a desktop machine as the primary drive, and go through the install routine. Admittedly, the configuration will be different from the laptop's, but you can fiddle the config files and settings once you get the drive installed back in the laptop. If however you can swing getting a network card and floppy into the laptop simultaneously, I think that that will be your easiest bet. > You could try a network install. > If you have a broadband connection you can create a boot disc and then boot > from an ftp site. The boot disc will try to get your Ethernet interface > working, and then ask you for an ftp address to load from. > Here is one you might try > ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS > (you might only need ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.1/i586 ) > > Instructions can be found on the boot CD in the file install.htm > > Never tried it myself, and it will be ssllooww > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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