Re: Networking
As much as I hate to loose a potential sale of CDs .....
The floppy images for a base install are on the CD. 16 images in all.
../current/images-144/ rescue*, root*, base14*
Phil.
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Dave McDonald wrote:
> Neal H Walfield wrote:
> >
> > > Well, I don't have F3 CD-ROMS; I just have the F3 images. Yes I know
> > > I was planning to NFS map the CD-ROM images (after mounting them with a
> > > loopback iso9660 filesystem) from another machine, but I cannot
> > > configure the network card.
> >
> > Why don't you just set up a translator?
> >
> > # settrans -acp /f3-main /hurd/isofs $HOME/images/f3-main.iso
>
> Well ... I'd love to. But then I'd have to get the images onto the Hurd
> machine ... but then I don't have networking. Catch-22 I think. What do
> you propose? I guess I could establish a serial connection - but what
> file tranfer software would I run ... or then again there's floppies
> (but I'm a cheapskate - I think I'd rather buy the CD's).
>
> I can see that you presume I'm also running another O/S on this machine,
> but this is not the case.
>
> Still, you've got me thinking. I imagine that if I actually boot from a
> Debian Linux rescue/root/drivers disk set, I could get networking
> working, and then I could transfer the files without needing to reserve
> HDD space for another O/S. Kinda attractive to a cheapskate like me - it
> would still be cheaper to get networking happenning with what I
> currently already have.
>
> I guess at this point, I'd suggest to Philip Charles that including a
> couple of extra floppies in the boot floppy set would be fantastic. But
> I think Philip has to balance this with legitimate concerns about the
> size of the images and the number of floppies needed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave McDonald
>
>
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