: On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:02:28 -0800, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
You can do an ftp installation by downloading the bootdisk (and modules disk if you you need it).
I can certify that this will work (at least to the extent that it completes :->), having completed an FTP install from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/ a few minutes ago. The thing to watch out for is FTP server timeouts. Once past that, all is smooth. The one remaining problem that I fear will creep up as soon as I try to boot into the system: I suspect that yast (text) allowed me to get away with installing *NO* kernel at all - it got an error downloading the 2.4 kernel - and yast still proceeded to the end, with lilo complaining <g>. IOW, recovery from that error seems to have been somewhat ... sub-optimal. Let's see whether I can complete the installation by other means. Are there plans to release a smallish "eval" ISO download for a tiny base system?