Hi Recently I bought a new motherboard and assembled a PC. The config is Intel P4 2.4ghz D845GVSR 256mb RAM,on board sound card,Dlink external modem. I used the HDD and cd rom drive of my old pc (a branded IBM PC) for the new one. I am duall booting Win XP and Slack 9.1 ( i am Now I have this pc as a spare PC for which I bought a HDD(40 gb) and also got a crossover cable. This Pc has a config of Celeron 500mhz 64mRAM 40gb HDD no CDrom No floppy drive. I want to connect these two PC's My questions 1.Can I make this old PC a linux only box (dual/triple boot Linux only) and connect to my dual boot new PC. this means that my primary partition should be linux native. 2.If (1) is possible then how do I load linux in this PC which has no Cd rom/floppy drive. 3.Which distro will be suitable as a primary distro. (i do not have problem if there is no GUI am comfortable with CLI) 4.Alternately I can create a Fat32 partition and load may be Win 98SE Any replies would be appreciated Thanks Ninad
its doubtful, but can ur m/c do a network boot, or even a usb boot?
else connect ur hard disk somewhere else, load and reconnect to old pc (of course make sure that its on the same ide-bus && use the correct kernel i.e. not a 686 kernel or one thats not for your old pc)
1.Can I make this old PC a linux only box (dual/triple boot Linux only) and connect to my dual boot new PC. this means that my primary partition should be linux native.
c'ya Erle
Ninad wrote:
Hi Recently I bought a new motherboard and assembled a PC. The config is Intel P4 2.4ghz D845GVSR 256mb RAM,on board sound card,Dlink external modem. I used the HDD and cd rom drive of my old pc (a branded IBM PC) for the new one. I am duall booting Win XP and Slack 9.1 ( i am Now I have this pc as a spare PC for which I bought a HDD(40 gb) and also got a crossover cable.
Dear Ninad,
In the new PC which is dual boot, get into linux and copy all your linux CD files into a folder within say /var/www/html/. Now create a boot floppy for the installation. In the same linux, start your http service in case it is not on. In Red Hat the default folder for http is /var/www/html so your linux dump folder should be in this folder or create a soft link pointing towards it.
Now in your old client machine, insert the boot floppy. (Please atleast use a floppy drive in the old machine). When your system boots, type the command 'linux askmethod' . Then in the dropdown list, select http and it will ask you for your own IP and then of the http server where the dump is located. When specifying the folder simply type the folder name after /var/www/html, that is, your newly created dump folder only. Http will know where to find it. You will be prompted for questions so answer them accordingly and your linux will be installed over your home net. I mentioned http service as it is available with most free distros.
I have skipped many details assuming you know it, if not, I will give you a step by step if you need it.
Regards,
Rony.
On Friday 14 Jan 2005 10:15 am, Ninad wrote:
My questions 1.Can I make this old PC a linux only box (dual/triple boot Linux only) and connect to my dual boot new PC. this means that my primary partition should be linux native.
yes
2.If (1) is possible then how do I load linux in this PC which has no Cd rom/floppy drive.
remove the cddrive from your new pc, put it in the old one, install. After installation and networking you can always access the cd drive over the network
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Erle Pereira -
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