[ale] ftp install

[Chris Ricker]

On 27 Nov, Paul D. Manno wrote:
> If you use RedHat, the installation is trivially easy since it asks during
> the installation if the image is from FTP, NFS, SMB, local CD-ROM, etc.
> 
> I have successfully done a complete install of the RedHat mustang pre-
> release (version 4.9) from a busy local NFS source in about 20 minutes
> using a single boot diskette.  One can presume that FTP will work equally
> as well with a reliable FTP server source.

I almost always do my installs via ftp from ftp.cc.gatech.edu ; my
cdrom drives are old and slow, so it's much quicker that way ;-).  It
does require two floppies, however....

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu