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to: THOMAS W. MUELLER
from: ROY J. TELLASON
date: 1998-03-29 19:59:00
subject: installing over a network

Thomas W. Mueller wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 TWM> That's exactly what I thougth, when I tried it the first
 TWM> time. It's too easy to be true, but it actually is true.
 TWM> If you run into any problem, you would probably have the same 
 TWM> problem when trying to install it from a local CD rom. 
 TWM> (Hardware incompatibilities like large IDE disk drives (2 Gig 
 TWM> is too large for an unfixed Warp Connect, SCSI works fine) or 
 TWM> NE2000 cards that block the system.)
Whoops!  I just bought a 6.4G drive...
What's needing to be "fixed" there?
 TWM>> You just use these disks to boot the second machine. The 
 TWM>> installation program should startup automaticly and the setup 
 TWM>> will run as if installing from a local CD-Rom but in fact using 
 TWM>> the CD in the other machine.
 RJT> I guess I must have mis-read something in one of the books,  then.
 TWM> Or you just have read all this stuff about a CID server and all 
 TWM> this IBM language confused you. ;-)
The networking stuff is confusing,  no doubt about that!  I'm also wondering 
what else I might be able to connect with this stuff,  in terms of some 
boards and things laying around here that will probably not be enough to 
support an install of Warp directly.  But that's for later,  I guess.
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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