I am shortly going to present an introductory Linux course and intend to use SuSE 7.2. I have at my disposal a couple of reasonably up to date PCs and 15 older ones. The latter have floppy drives, network cards but no CD drives. I am thinking of allowing students to install SuSE via ftp or NFS. I would like to know whether any list members could make some suggestions about the best way to do this. For instance, I will not be popular if I swamp the college's Internet connection by having 15 users simultaneously installing from an outside source, so would like to know what I should install on one of the good PCs to give the best facilities for this installation - a copy of the installation CD or a copy of some part of the ftp site. Any other ideas would be much appreciated. Arthur
arthur writes:
I am shortly going to present an introductory Linux course and intend to use SuSE 7.2. I have at my disposal a couple of reasonably up to date PCs and 15 older ones. The latter have floppy drives, network cards but no CD drives. I am thinking of allowing students to install SuSE via ftp or NFS. I would like to know whether any list members could make some suggestions about the best way to do this. For instance, I will not be popular if I swamp the college's Internet connection by having 15 users simultaneously installing from an outside source, so would like to know what I should install on one of the good PCs to give the best facilities for this installation - a copy of the installation CD or a copy of some part of the ftp site. Any other ideas would be much appreciated. Arthur
I had no luck installing SUSE 7.2 via ftp or NFS. After turning on debugging on the FTP server I determined it was looking for a file that did not exist on the CD. This was being done on my internal network, with the personal edition. Maybe the professional edition works. I eventually installed one of my CDROM drives into the computer and installed it that way. What a bummer. You would think a function like would have improved over time. What I did was mount the first CD on one of my machines, and then supplied the login information, and it connected OK, but it was looking for a file called root in a specific place. I could not find it on the CD. I had the same problem for NFS.
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Set up one of the newer machines and install from there. Or, depending on the size of the hard drives, install from a different partition. On Wednesday 12 September 2001 02:29 pm, arthur wrote:
I am shortly going to present an introductory Linux course and intend to use SuSE 7.2. I have at my disposal a couple of reasonably up to date PCs and 15 older ones. The latter have floppy drives, network cards but no CD drives. I am thinking of allowing students to install SuSE via ftp or NFS. I would like to know whether any list members could make some suggestions about the best way to do this. For instance, I will not be popular if I swamp the college's Internet connection by having 15 users simultaneously installing from an outside source, so would like to know what I should install on one of the good PCs to give the best facilities for this installation - a copy of the installation CD or a copy of some part of the ftp site. Any other ideas would be much appreciated. Arthur
am thinking of allowing students to install SuSE via ftp or NFS. I would like to know whether any list members could make some suggestions about the best way to do this. For instance, I will not be popular if I swamp the college's Internet connection by having 15 users simultaneously installing from an outside source, so would like to know what I should install on one of the good PCs to give the best facilities for this installation - a copy of the installation CD or a copy of some part of
Setup a pc with a lot of disk space. the entire suse distro is about 6G if the pc is connected to the LAN and is accessed by local peers, traffic would not be a problem not unless your network can't handle it, and allow only local traffic to access your suse installer ftp server. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com
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