Re: [TCLUG:3963] new distribution

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

You could steal RedHat's autodetection routines for the network card, and
obtain the IP address from a bootp/dhcp server if you wanted to. Also, it
would be nice if you could add functionality to load the installation 
files from a NFS/FTP/Samba/Whatever server.. then you could just make a
boot disk for each machine you wanted to load Linux on, turn it on, and
start controlling the machines from your web browser on another machine.
Just my $.01.. oh, and I would personally recommend Debian over slackware,
but hey, that's just me.

----
Nate Carlson
the infinite loop
natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Serge M. Egelman wrote:

> yeha, we've decided to base it off slackware.  We're going to make it so
> that all that is done on the machien to bo setup, is having to specify an ip
> and also the type of NIC.
> 
> serge
> 
> 
> Christopher Palmer wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Serge M. Egelman wrote:
> >
> > > What would you guys think of a distribution that is setup over the web?
> > > You put in a bootdisk (preferably a bootable CDROM), and then launch
> > > netscape on another machine on the lan and configure the install from
> > > there.
> >
> > More so than the Web part, the remote part catches my attention. If you
> > could make it configure several machines at once, remotely, that would be
> > something.
> >
> > Be sure to base it off of an existing distribution -- we don't need any
> > more from scratch distros...
> >
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> >
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