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GAH! Redhat 7.3 install over HTTP...

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voidmain:
That looks right.  If you use the network boot disk you should be asked for IP information and then for an HTTP server and directory.  In your case the directory would be "/disc1".  Now you should be able to copy the RPMS from the /RedHat/RPMS directory on disk 2 and 3 into the /disc1/RedHat/RPMS directory and it should work.

AlexMax:
What about the error?  And what about the /RedHat/base subdir?

[ August 21, 2002: Message edited by: AlexMax ]

voidmain:
The error looks like it was due to not being able to find the RedHat/base directory (which contains the stage2 of the installation program).  Now that you have the RedHat/base directory have you tried booting from the network boot floppy and start the install?

[ August 21, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

AlexMax:
I havn't unpacked the 2nd and 3rd iso's yet

I will do it tomorrow.  Right now, my mother is cheawing me out for trying to install Linux on a computer that I have to share with two brats that I call sisters.

"You need to make it easy for them to use!"

"They shouldn't have to learn anything else!"

And then my dad...

"You're WRONG!  Nobody uses Linux, I;ve been workin in the business world and everyone uses Microsoft products.  You are WRONG!"

Computer unsavey parents are so....

Even worse is when their technical expertiece is outdated.d  (dad)

voidmain:
You can test it with just one unpacked ISO to see if it will work.  I just mounted up disk one, created a symbolic link under my web root so it shows up the same as yours:

http://myserver/disc1

which contains the RedHat/base and RedHat/RPMS directory.  I created a network boot floppy from the /images/bootnet.img, and a network extra driver disk from the /images/drvnet.img file, booted the bootnet disk, picked my network card from the extra driver disk, told it to configure IP via DHCP, put in the IP address of my web server, and "/disc1" in the directory prompt and it loaded up stage2 of the installation from my http server and started the normal install you would get from a CD install.  So it should work.  I did not try and use your win98 server as an http server from here but I will if you want me to test it.  Like I said, I use Apache web server but it should not matter.

P.S. are you doing this just as an exercise to try the different installation methods?  I'm curious why you are not installing from CD. If you don't have a CD drive on the machine you are trying to install to, you can just temporarily move the CD drive from the machine that does have one to the one you want to install on. Just for the purposes of installation, then move it back.

[ August 21, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

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