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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:03 AM

Sharninder wrote:

> hi,
> I have a PC with a fast connection to the net but no floppy disk or a
> CDROM drive. This PC has NT 4 server installed. Is there any way i can
> install linux on it totally of the network. Loadlin based solutions
> don't work because i only have NT on the machine.

There are ways to install an entire OS from a network site as a system
image, but I don't think you're ready to go there. Can you open the box
and temporarily attach a CD or floppy drive?

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:04 AM

Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<OZBKa.2384$3b.494@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>...
>
> There are ways to install an entire OS from a network site as a system
> image, but I don't think you're ready to go there. Can you open the box
> and temporarily attach a CD or floppy drive?

no, i cannot. If i were able to do that i would have just booted from
a linux disk and installed the rest of the OS from the network. but i
want to install totally from the network and i'm using Windows NT. Had
it been Windows 9x, i would have used loadlin and installed Linux.

regards

#3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:07 AM

sharninder@mailmetoday.com (Sharninder) wrote in message news:<33b0a49.0306262033.7f736918@posting.google.c om>...
> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<OZBKa.2384$3b.494@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>...
> >
> > There are ways to install an entire OS from a network site as a system
> > image, but I don't think you're ready to go there. Can you open the box
> > and temporarily attach a CD or floppy drive?
>
> no, i cannot. If i were able to do that i would have just booted from
> a linux disk and installed the rest of the OS from the network. but i
> want to install totally from the network and i'm using Windows NT. Had
> it been Windows 9x, i would have used loadlin and installed Linux.

is there any other solution to my problem. please i'm really desperate here !!

#4 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:08 AM

> >>
> >>no, i cannot. If i were able to do that i would have just booted from
> >>a linux disk and installed the rest of the OS from the network. but i
> >>want to install totally from the network and i'm using Windows NT. Had
> >>it been Windows 9x, i would have used loadlin and installed Linux.
> >
> >
> > is there any other solution to my problem. please i'm really desperate here !!
>
> You still haven't said what distro and what the box is. Can it boot from
> a USB device? And I'm still not clear on why you can't open it up?

no ..the PC does'nt have a USB port and i can't open it because its in
my office. i would like to install debian on it, but for the time
being any distro would do. once one distro. is installed ... i can
install debian from there.
the problem is that the IS dept. refuses to install a floppy or CDrom
on this machine and i absolutely must have linux on it.
any solutions...

#5 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:08 AM

> >
> Sounds like the machine is locked down, and you are trying to defeat
> their security measures. This equipment does not belong to you, and
> this is recipe for not continuing to work for your present employer.
>

well, not exactly , i only need to tell my project leader about it and
he'll give me the permission ... but i wanted to see if this can be
done. even though i still believe what i'm trying to do is feasible ..
but due to lack of pointers i'll have to concede to the IS dept. now
...

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