*NIX with network installation....

[thornc]

Hello all,

I want to install a new OS on my office computer, I have broadband access and no CD burner, so I was planning to do a network install.

What *NIX OSes(distros) have that option???

I know RH,SuSe and Debian can do it... what else?? What *BSDs can do it?

I've tryed to find them myself, but I don't seem to find any other....

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

All of them do it. Just stick the relevant files on an ftp server on your network, and point your installer at it.

 

[thornc]

Can't do that.... This is the only machine I have access to!!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Ahh, ok. Well, all BSDs should have ftp installation over the net, NetBSD does for sure (I've used it), and I'm 99.9999999% sure the others do.

 

[Nothinman]

Yea all the BSDs will ask you what type of install to do, choose FTP then choose a mirror, even OpenBSD lets you pick a mirror from a list.

 

[rmrf]

Just go to any of the distros websites and download the boot floppy. After you create the floppy and boot from it, you will have an option to install from cd, ftp, http, or nfs. That is at least the experience that I have had with it. 🙂

 

[thornc]

It think this might be a good excuse to give some *BSD a try... don't want to start a war here, but which would you suggest for general desktop usage and a little programming.... one problem, can I create a boot floppy with *BSD like I can do with linux and lilo!

Stupid man question, can *BSD read FAT32 partitions?? I have on set-up on my harddisk that I would like to use to share data between XP and the *NIX os........

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: thornc
It think this might be a good excuse to give some *BSD a try... don't want to start a war here, but which would you suggest for general desktop usage and a little programming.... one problem, can I create a boot floppy with *BSD like I can do with linux and lilo!

You can install LILO on a floppy.

Stupid man question, can *BSD read FAT32 partitions?? I have on set-up on my harddisk that I would like to use to share data between XP and the *NIX os........

mount_msdos mounts most FAT partitions I believe. I haven't actually tried though 😉