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Re: network install problems



Most of the times you'll need (after installing RH) - the rescue
diskette (example - LILO fucked up the boot sector, or you re-installed
Windows 95/98/98SE/Millenium edition)

So, in that case - boot from the CD and type: linux rescue - and there
you have it :)

Hetz


Omer wrote:
> 
> > BTW: After booting from the bootnet img, and selecting 'text' install,
> > I'm
> > prompted for a 'driver' diskette. Can anybody tell me what that means?
> 
> RH used to use 2 diskette installation set - first diskette contained the
> installler itself, which used a jack-of-all-trades kernel. Second diskette
> contained modules for more esoteric devices, as well as stuff needed for
> network (FTP/NFS) install.
> 
> Now that RH uses El-Torito CDROMs as installation media, almost anyone had
> forgotten 'bout those diskettes. You can still find image of the second
> diskette on CD, under dir /images or like. I have to admitt that I do not
> remember name of image.
> 
> --
> Cheers,
>      Omer Mussaev / tel 051308214 / http://www.linuxlizard.de/omer
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