From: Brent Harding <bharding@doorpi.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: INSTALLING LINUX OVER THE INTERNET
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 16:23:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20020519162319.00a2cd40@mail.doorpi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205182242530.1448-100000@toccata.rednote.ne t>
Well, I think slackware won't install over the net though. It will over
nfs, I think, but I'm not sure if there are nfs servers on the internet to
use for this anyways, heard it's a really insecure protocol with tons of
exploits, probably suited completely for local use and not on the net.
At 10:44 PM 5/18/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Yes, Debian appears better suited to an install over the net. The
>Red Hat network installation appears oriented to local networks,
>not the Internet.
>
>It is, nevertheless, all about keeping the connection. So, if you
>have one that's reliable, it will work over http, ftp, (and nfs).
>
>On Sat, 18 May 2002, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>
>> Hi, I don't know how REDhat does it's inter net install, but
>> Debian doesn't have this problem. If you loose your connection,
>> you just restart the install command and it picks up where it
>> left off.
>>
>> Kenny
>>
>> On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 06:58:40PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> > We addressed this in early versions of the HOWTO_INSTALL file for
>> > the Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution, but dropped it
>> > eventually for the following reason.
>> >
>> > You can, but you must restart over from the beginning if you lose
>> > your connection before the installation completes. On the other
>> > hand, you can resume a download from the point of the
>> > interruption with a proper download agent like ncftp (available
>> > for Windows as well as Linux). Go to:
>> >
>> > http://www.ncftp.com
>> >
>> > On Sat, 18 May 2002, Michael Weaver wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi!
>> > > Can any flavour of Linux be setup via the Internet?
>> > > I keep noticing something about Linux and FTP on some of the flavours.
>> > > Doing it this way might be much more quicker than downloading the
files onto
>> > > my hard drive and burning them onto CDROM which I don't have the
facility to
>> > > do yet as I don't yet have a CD writer.
>> > >
>> > >
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` Janina Sajka
` L. C. Robinson
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