What do you mean, "get real". If that is all your 2 cents you might as well keep them, thank you. Incidentially, I'm just running a few boxes behind a thorough firewall; and I want to install via ftp. I am not prepared to buy CD drives for every P133 in our office. THis is not a setting that requires a paranoic handling of things, and I have decided that installing via FTP is just fine and very conveniant in *MY* situation, that you do not know. The big question remains unanswered: Has the option to install via ftp gone? And how come so? Thank you. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Erwin Rennert, Center for Social Innovation Austria, Europe erwin@zsi.at On Thu, 2 May 2002, John Trickey wrote:
I've just been trying to install SuSE 8.0 via FTP, but I couldn't believe it hwen I saw it: there is no ftp-installation option. There are only two options left: - Installation via NFS (insecure !!!!) - Installation via SMB/Windows file sharing (doesn't work, because the installer can't find a no further specified module).
Please don't force us to use nfs - that sucks and is _really_ insecure.
Am I missing something or did SuSE remove the ftp-installer. Andy why doesn't the (also insecure) smb-installer work ?
Who in their right mind installs on a live network! Get real!
John