[plug] RedHat 5.2 question(s)

[Tony Clark]

I've done several NFS installs without much drama...use IPs to avoid any
possible dns problems.

Tony


At 10:09 AM 1/28/99 +0800, you wrote:
>OK, I give in. I have been trying to solve this myself and am failing.
>
>I am trying to install RedHat 5.2 onto a system with no cdrom drive. The
manual
>says I should be able to do this a number of ways. 
>
>smb:    I have tried this by sharing it out from my Win98
>        system and doing the smb install, it keeps saying
>        it cannot find the "server".
>ftp:    I set up an ftp server and an account for it to 
>        use and tried an ftp install. No error message, it
>        just keeps throwing me back to the ftp setup screen.
>nfs:    Not yet tried.
>
>Am I missing something here?
>Does it expect to do some sort of dns lookup?
>
>Can anyone help please?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Regards,
>Chris Griffin
>
>ps. Anyone got a RH 5.2 for Sparc bootable cd?
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