RH 8 USB Net Install 1

[venkman]

My cd drive seems to be having some read problems, so I'm trying to install RH 8 over the internet using the bootnet.img found on the cd. The problem is this computer has no LAN card and connects to the internet via USB connected cable-modem. How do I make the RH 8 installer recognize the usb-cable-modem? Is there a device driver out there I need to load?

Alternatively, I have a USB connected cd drive (other than the IDE one I'm having trouble with). This PC is too old to boot from USB, but is there a way to boot to floopy and then run the install off of the usb connected cd drive?

-Venkman

 

[venkman]

okay, got it installed using the second cd-rom. Still can't get usb ethernet to work, but I haven't yet taken a deep look into it.
-venkman

 

[tobiasly]

Without knowing the specifics of your cable modem, most USB modems won't work in Linux. This is because some of the functions that are normally performed by hardware are instead performed by the device driver, and your modem likely didn't come with Linux drivers.

If your cable modem has the option of connecting through an ethernet port instead, that's definitely the way to go. Network cards are so cheap that it's worth the $10 or so to go the ethernet route.

This is a little outdated, but it might help you some for network settings specific to your provider:

http://www.linuxdoc.com/index.lxp?lxpwrap=HOWTO-INDEX/../Cable-Modem/index.html

 

[mstaicu]

Hi venkman,
I have the same problem, I would like to know how you did it. I have a laptop with broken cd and and using an external USB CDRW (Teac CDW58E). The hard is very small (4Gb) so if I copy the distribution of RH8 will be little room for linux install. I am old windows programmer but new to linux and willing to migrate on my laptop to linux.

Anything you thing I might now I would really appreciate.
Thanks.

 

[venkman]

sorry mstaicu, I can't remember how I got the the usb cdrw to work. I'm not sure how new you are to linux, so forgive me if you already new this, but you can boot the linux install from a floppy. I'm guesing when I did this install months ago that I got the usb cdrw to be recognized during the floppy boot. if you haven't already read through the redhat manual, check out:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/s1-steps-install-cdrom.html

Also if you have network access on your laptop you can do a network install (one of the boot floppies does this).
Sorry I couldn't be more help.

-Venkman