[plug] Installing Mandrake ver. 8

[mickey]

Is it possible to install Mandrake via HTTP/FTP like you would install 
Debian for example?, by just downloading a small base distribution and 
then installing the rest of the distribution via a package manager sort 
of thing (I know Mandrake has one based on rpm's). I tried booting with 
the network.img floppy disk, (supposedly for NFS/HTML/FTP), but it would 
only find my Ethernet card and I've got a modem connection. I then 
downloaded all the files in Mandrake/base which gives me the nice 
graphical installation (decidedly un-linux-like :) ), but then it looks 
on my hard drives for the rpm's it wants to install from.

Any help would be most appreciated, I'll try and buy the cd's soon though.

Thanks,
Mikey.