[plug] Attempting to install redhat 5.2 over network

[Ian Kent]

At 07:08 AM 11-03-99 +0800, Steve Baker wrote something like:
>On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, David Buddrige wrote:
>
>> 
>> Hi Rob (and others)... 8-)
>> 
>> I'm at home, trying to get this machine installed with Linux... I gave 
>> up trying to use SMB - basically it got to the install stage where it 
>> requests the second supplementary disk.  I insert disk created from the 
>> supp.img file, and press ok.
>> 
>> It then says "failed to mount /dev/fd0. and won't go any further than 
>> that... 8-(

You are not getting anywhere here.
Does your floppy have bad sectors?

>> 
>> I'm now trying to set it up using FTP (from my home-linux machine to the 
>> new system - but am having similar problem...
>> 
>> Has anyone got any ideas?
>
>You probably don't have an FTP server running on your NT system - if it's 
>NT Workstation, then I'm pretty sure that's it.  Look around the net 
>for a free one - I think there is an NT version of wu-ftpd somewhere.
>

Does the CD look OK when you read it under NT?


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Ian Kent