On Tuesday 25 February 2003 20:36, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: ? > > My idea (though I don't know if really doable) was to boot the P166 with > a floppy-based distro that can detect and bring-up the NIC and then use > ssh to connect to it from my duron machine. I know the idea has a lot of > flaws that I have not seen so I submitted it to the mailing list for > dissection. :) >
I don't know if this will help but you can do a kickstart install. Redhat will do fine and their documentation at their website is good. The kickstart floppy should contain info about where your source RPMS will be located and it will autodetect your eth. card. You do have to install either an httpd, ftp or nfs server to serve the source RPMS. RH has a kickstart configurator but it's buggy as of 7.3. Better use your default anaconda-ks.cfg at /root and modify from there. Everything in the install can be fully automated(just stick floppy, boot and leave)--just check it first on a system w/ a keyboard and monitor. Then unplug everything and config BIOS and try. Mileage varies everytime i do this. Maybe diff distros do a better job??? HTH _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
