[Quantian-general] install via netboot

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 16 November 2005 at 18:07, Emmanuel Paradis wrote:
| I experienced installing Quantian on my desktop early this year, and 
| this is really great. (Maybe I could burn a CD with Knoppix and install 
| that for a start, but too many applications are missing for me on Knoppix.)

Yup, install-to-disk is quite useful for getting 6gb of software at once :)

| I don't know how to copy these files since there is no partition on the 
| disk (but I guess I could find how to do it).

You'd have to to do a basic install of any of your favourite Linux distro so
that you are left with that distro in one (or more) partitions, a bootloader
on the hd and empty space for a spare partition to hold the iso. Actually,
the Quantian iso-to-be-booted-from-disk can also sit on the "other"
partition.

| > Which version of Quantian? 0.6.9.3?  That version works rather reliably
| > between my two laptops -- make sure you enable the network card of you
| > laptop, though.  You should see a message that the appropriate module has
| > been loaded and configured.
| 
| Yes, 0.6.9.3!
| 
| It says that a dozen of modules are loaded...

On the remote machine?
 
| How do you enable the network card?

When you enable the 'knoppix-terminalserver' (or
knoppix-openmosixterminalserver), you get several short dialogs. One of them
has a long list of network card modules, and you may have to select the one
your to-be-netbooted laptop has [ in my case, a Intel e1000 in a recent-ish
IBM laptop ].

Wim has a fairly detailed step-by-step HOWTO at the sixth question of 
bofh.be/clusterknoppix/faq.html -- I guess you want 'X on master and X on
node'. 

Hope this helps, Dirk

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