[techtalk] Mandrake NFS install

[Jeff]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 04:21:28PM +0000, J B wrote:
> Ok...a friend is doing her first install on a Pentium Pro 200.  She had a CD 
> of Mandrake 6.5, but the burn was not good, so she FTP'd 7.0.
> 
> Any suggestions as to how to do the NFS install (this is on a big, fast 
> network (fiber backbone, 3Com NIC), so bandwidth will not be a 
> problem....Just need to know how to get the machine to look to the drive 
> where the images are stored, and what exactly to load first.  This machine 
> has a 2GB drive, and the entire fileset that she downloaded is 1.6Gb...so 
> she cannot copy it across form a DOS networdk bootdisk, unless there are 
> particular files that she will need....Any help is appreciated...

I recently helped with a bunch of network installs of MD7, and I think the easiest way to do this was using the ftp install.  I'm assuming that because the box you are trying to install from can do NFS, it also probably has an ftp server (or could  be set up for one in a pinch).  You'll still need to make the boot disks for the install, but that should be in the documentation, I believe you just use the basic disks, but don't quote me on that one (someone else did this part of the installation, they weren't my boxes).

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Jeff
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