I had an old packard bell w/no cd and was able to install suse fine using ftp from another local suse box. I used a well supported 3com card. Stuart Hall wrote:
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:40:55 +0100, you wrote:
I have a very old 486 33 Mhz that I want to use as a router. The problem is that it is very old, having a CD (I installed several years after it was bought) that is very non-standard. I hope I can somehow install w/o using this CD, as I imagine there's a lot of work getting it to function (the CD is connected to a create soundblaster sound card).
There's a working network card in the computer. Can I install using that?
I had exactly this same problem. There are at least two possible solutions.
If your network card is a recognizable option from within YAST (mine wasn't), then you can have YAST recognize your network card, and then do a network install. This would be the easiest method.
However, my problem was that the NIC modules that shipped with my SuSE were corrupt, so I could not get my card (a 3com 3c509) to load. My solution was to take the hard-drive out of the 486, and swap it into my computer that *does* have a good CD-ROM. I then did a brand new, minimum install, with networking, onto that 486 drive. I then made a custom kernel, including support for my network card and installed that on the drive. Once I removed the drive, and reinstalled is in the 486, everything went well. I even moved the NIC module over to a fresh floppy just in case I ever got another hard-drive crash and had to reinstall SuSE.
Far and away, if Yast will recognize your network card, this is the *simplest* route. But I will bet that my way, swapping the drives, was just as *fast*.
Stuart -- Stuart Hall Cheshire, Connecticut, USA Linux User# 141732
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