intstall without a cd-rom ?

[anton]

Hello,

I don't have Cd-rom in my future server , and am not really looking for putting it there ... so, is there any way to install linux without cd-rom ?

and of course , how ?

thx :)

p.s. most probably Slackware, if that's needed

[bdl]

Slackware will allow you to install via NFS, so if you want you can export the CDROM from another machine on the network, or from a directory on the HDD. Other distros will allow FTP installs, you might look into Debian or FreeBSD for something along those lines.

[FoBoT]

use debian, its really easy
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-install-floppi es (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-install-floppies)

get it started with floppy , then ftp whatever else you need

oh, yeah, freeBSD is fun to install with floppy/ftp too
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html

[ 10 December 2001: Message edited by: FoBoT ]

[anton]

thx... I'll probably will try to install FreeBSD ... anyway I need it only for firewall,router and little server :)