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

Hi all,

I am getting a Panasonic Toughbook R1 this Friday, and am going to try to
install SuSE over the network. However, this notebook lacks FDD and CDROM
drives.

I am fairly inexperienced, but as far as I can tell, it can be done without
floppies or CDs...

I looked around at Linux.org and found the following HOWTO:

linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Network-boot-HOWTO/index.html

Part 6.1.-- BOOTP or DHCP capable NICs is the part that makes me think that
this is definitely possible

The only problem is that the guide gives very little detail on how to
actually boot from the network. It just tells me that once I set up a DHCP
client that I am done, but I am not sure how to do this, and what I do
after???

Once I get the laptop booted I am fairly sure that I won't have a problem
FTPing the install...

Oh and if this all goes to hell on me, I have a backup plan:

alfalab.com/toughbook.html

Someone else used a USB CDROM successfully (but I would rather save my $$$)

Well any suggestions or pointers will be appreciated!!!

Thanks,

Dean

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

Mingo <thejesus@godmail.com> wrote:
> I am fairly inexperienced, but as far as I can tell, it can be done without
> floppies or CDs...

If your laptop has an internal network card and can boot from network,
you should be able to setup a remote installation server, otherwise a
dirty-quick solution is to dismount the hard disk, mount it into another
machine WITH a CD-ROM and perform the installation, then put the HD back
in the laptop.

Davide

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