installing over crossover cable

[emetib]

hopefully someone can help.

i have an old ibm ps2 486sx that a friend gave me to play with. what i want to do is to install a basic linux system on the 250m hd, w/ 16m ram. i've done the research to find out that linux can be installed. i just want it to learn networking, iptables, etc...

what i need to do is be able to get access to my other box. i've looked at the how to's and they just don't make much sense (this nic needs these lines added and this one needs these removed). there not telling me if i need to have smb, nfs, or what. i have two nics on each machine. my internet connection is up with no problems but the crossover is down.

do i look at the ps2 from my linux box or the other way around. i want to be able to run cfdisk to partition it, but can't get things going.

i have a coyote linux floppy in the ps2 machine now that i can ping my linux box with, but i can't go the other way.

does anyone have any idea, link, how to, any thing that will get me on the right track?

thanks

[kam]

I don't know specifically about this situation, but to install over a LAN on Red Hat you boot up from a floppy, and then you can mount the ISOs via NFS.

[Molecule Man]

Ok, if you are trying to do a lan install, you need to decide if you are going to do it via NFS or FTP. Theoretically you could do it over SMB (Samba), but not something that is going to be easy.

Because of the lack of cheap NFS solutions for non-unix boxes (and I count Linux as Unix), I recommend setting up an FTP server on the Windows computer. Mirror the files into the home directory of the FTP server, and set up a boot floppy according to the distro's instructions.

As I understand this to be a one time deal, you ought to be able to find some shareware ftp server.

[2damncommon]

I wish you luck. My attempts with NFS install have not been easy.
Basically you need to get all your networking set up in advance.
Decide on IP addresses and names.
Confirm NFS is running.
Get the machine you want to install to in "/etc/hosts", "/etc/hosts.allow", "/etc/exports".
Then you boot from the install floppy, use the name and IP you have already selected and direct the install program to the correct file on the other machine.
Troubleshoot what doesn't work.
That is just some basic stuff from the top of my head.
You will want to read some NFS docs.