Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 22 January 2005 16:48, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>Les Mikesell wrote:
>> If you have another Linux machine on the network you can speed
>> up installs and avoid CD issues by doing an NFS install.  Just
>> download the iso images to a directory on a Linux box that is
>> exported via NFS and burn only the first disk.  Then enter
>> 'linux askmethod' at the boot prompt, pick NFS as the install
>> method and fill in the details for the NFS export.  The installer
>> will do all the magic of mounting the images for you.  It is
>> faster than CDs and you don't have to hang around to swap disks.
>
>As a matter of interest I tried this ("linux askmethod")
>but it didn't appear to have any effect.
>When I reached the choice of method NFS was listed
>(this is what I wanted to try)
>but I was unable to choose it -
>if I did, it simply returned at once to the same choices.
>(All that I was able to choose was Local CD or Hard disk.)
>
>I assume the reason is that I had no IP connection at that moment.
>In fact I have only one PMCIA slot,
>and that was occupied by the CD reader.
>
>Is it in fact possible to install over the net in this case?

I would have to assume that for that to work, you'd have to stick an 
ethernet card of some kind it knew about in that PCMCIA slot. And 
hook it up to a local network.  ISTR that it asked me for the IP and 
netmask before it got to that screen, so in my case it already knew 
there was a network available.

My problem yesterday (I haven't played with it today, worked graveyard 
last night & slept most of the day) was that while this box was 
showing an authenticated connection coming in, the box I was trying 
to install FC3 on kept telling me it was being denied permission to 
connect.  One or the other wasn't speaking with the right accent I 
guess.

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