How would I Do this

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: How would I Do this
started by: Ekylypse

Posted by Ekylypse on June 11 2004,21:47

How would I put say....PXELinux on a 32MB Smart Media Card then Have it apt-get, or wget not sure what PXE uses, the files from my webserver and then boot it? How would I go about doing something like this?

Posted by Ekylypse on June 11 2004,22:03

In other words, I need a network install, which is started by a 32MB Smart Media Card. Thanks.

Posted by roberts on June 11 2004,23:00

The later versions of frugal have a web install, as well as a file install, no cdrom needed.
The web install wgets the iso from web into ramdisk, then frugally installs to hard drive, CF, or similar.

Posted by Ekylypse on June 11 2004,23:07

Thanks, where would I go to get the frugal install? I currently have Mandrake 7.2 on the box I want to get this on, I have the ISO on my windows machine and can I wget it from there? Just wondering how this "frugal install" works. I have had DSL on this box before, and it ran so smooth, and I would like it again, Mandrake is a bit clunky with Gnome on a 200MHz box. I'm planning on running this as a CounterStrike server as I have before. Thanks.

Posted by roberts on June 12 2004,00:36

frugal_instal.sh is part of the damnsmall distribution. Maybe that is a catch-22 for you? You should use the latest one from damnsmall-0.7.1 as I am always trying to improve or add features to it.

Posted by Ekylypse on June 12 2004,03:14

How would I extract and run this? Ya know, it might be kinda difficult :-/ Thanks