[nflug] Ubuntu network install?

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Mark T. Valites wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, David Rosonowski wrote:
>
>> So, turns out the CD drive on my laptop is no good (again?), and I'm
>> left with no way to install Ubuntu on the news of flash 9's release.
>> Now, it offers network boot, but to be honest, I have no idea where
>> to even begin.
>>
>> It's a dell inspiron 8200. hikaru, and I have the latest ISO burned
>> to CD. I have another computer, wintermute, that's a generic win32
>> (XP) box, and another laptop, enzo, which is an OS X machine without
>> a CD drive. (it died too...).
>>
>> Anyone know of a decent walkthrough or at least something to start with?
>
> You might be able to pull it off with the OS X machine without too
> much hassle, but then again, it wouldn't surprise me if Apple forced
> you to use OS X Server to run some of the required daemons.
>
> Booting knoppix on the windows machine and configuring available
> services there is probably your best bet. The Knoppix hacks book isn't
> a bad book to pick up if you go this route.
>
> The basic requirements are DHCP/PXE & tftp (not ftp). You could set up
> a local nfs/ftp/http server to serve the files for the install from
> too, but it's easier to just skip that step and use the publically
> available installation sources (assuming you have broadband).
>
> A quick google reveals there is a ubuntu doc for what you want to do &
> it can be found at:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot
>
> Note that if you're on a public network, running your own DHCP may be
> heavily frowned upon. If you're behind a linksys/belkin/dlink/whatever
> router, you may want to temporarily disable the DHCP server on it
> before beginning to save yourself headaches.
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Ah, I forgot about Knoppix, good advise, we've done that one before
around here, Dave helped us on that one. That knoppix cd does rock!
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