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Old 04-28-2007, 12:36 PM   #1
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Major distributions, with net install?

Do any of the major distributions, besides Debian, have the option of floppy-initiated installation over the internet? I used to be able to do this with older versions of SUSE, but I no longer see any img files for install in this manner.
 
Old 04-29-2007, 05:59 AM   #2
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Most major distributions have some form of net install. The trick is doing it without a cd drive:

OpenSUSE 10.2
http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD
... since you mentioned it.
 
Old 05-03-2007, 02:08 AM   #3
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Slackware does: ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/...11.0/bootdisks

Ubuntu's wiki says it can be installed with debian's boot disks, but I never tried it, went with straight debian instead (and didn't regret it).
 
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Mandriva also has a net install which can be done using floppies. The instructions are on any of the Mandriva mirrors in the architecture type (i.e. i586 etc) directory of the installation tree.
 
  


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