On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 03:00, Reg Clemens wrote: > > > > > > I've personally installed using an external hard drive before. So I can > > > verify that works. I haven't tried the others but they're still > > > available options on the boot CD so I have to assume they're still valid. > > > > > > > Yes, well Id decided that the next try would be HardDisk (to the first machine) > > and then FTP to the rest, I was just wanted to put my complaint down on the > > list, and see if others were having the same problem. Just seems like a > > silly change. > > NFS is really the easy way to go if it isn't your first > linux install. Just download the iso images to an nfs-exported > directory, burn only the first disk and boot from it with > 'linux askmethod' at the boot prompt. Then pick nfs as > the method and fill in the server / directory info. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > No need to burn the first CD. In the long run, it's much easier to setup a pxeboot/tftp setup and boot from the network... Gilboa
