installing rh9 via telnet

installing rh9 via telnet

[dave m mehler]

Hello,
	I'm trying to do a telnet install of rh9. I've done this before in rh8,
but the procedure appears to have been changed for 9. If i boot from CD,
then at the prompt do:
text telnet
it fires up. I'll get to my network card in a minute. If however i use
the floppies, boot.img and pcmciadb.img, because in this instance i can't
use a boot rom, i enter the same thing:
text telnet
i'm never asked for the drivers disk, it goes right in to the install. 
	Also, on my network card, it has media autodetection difficulties so i
have to put a parameter in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, think that's the
file:
module "xirc2ps_cs" opts "if_port=4"
what i was wondering is would it be possible to pass the if_port=4 to the
nic also on the commandline?
	Suggestions welcome.
Thanks.
Dave.


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Re: installing rh9 via telnet

[Lorenzo Prince]

Not sure about the if_port=4 parameter, but the driver disk issue can be
resolved by including thd dd parameter on the boot command line.

Lorenzo

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Re: installing rh9 via telnet

[L. C. Robinson]

On Thu, 29 May 2003, dave m mehler wrote:

> have to put a parameter in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts,
> think that's the file:

> module "xirc2ps_cs" opts "if_port=4"

> what i was wondering is would it be possible to pass
> the if_port=4 to the nic also on the commandline?

Well, I don't know the specific answer, (you can
probably look it up as well as I can) and the syntax
is possibly different, but there is a BootPrompt-HOWTO
which has an incredible wealth of this kind of info,
and references to other documents that have similar
info. See http://linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto for
current versions.

LCR
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