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install linux over a network to a laptop

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by kyleknicks

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(i have a home network that consist of my PC and a laptop connected thru a broadband router)

It's an older laptop that has a cdrom that seems to be busted,but the floppy works..(not willing to replace).. i would like to install something like knoppix on it maybe using my PC's cdrom... how would i go about this? maybe a bootdisk that sees my network and my PC..and somehow mount the cd rom drive? and install over the network? i'm confused.. thanks for any input

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by penguinvitamins2

Simplified steps for RedHat Linux network install: (Choices are FTP, NFS or HTTP)
1. Create Linux boot disks; 2-3 disk, images on the CDs \RedHat\images. Use Linux or Windows-rawritewin.exe on CD
2. Set up a FTP server. Can be a MS Windows PC or Linux NFS share
3. Copy the 3 installation CDs to the FTP or NFS share, dump it all under the same directory but keep the directory structures.
4. Boot up the workstation with boot disk 1 (created in 1.)
5. When prompted enter the driverdisk
6. Enter the FTP/NFS server details and path of the setup files e.g. /pub/rhinstall

Good luck

Sources:RedHat 9 documentation ftp.redhat.com or www.redhat.com

I can mail you a more detailed document if you like.

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