Installing 5.2 via Ftp

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From: Ronald Rosenbaum
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:00

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I'm a relatively new user, but I think I'm going about things right.  I've
got an old HP Vectra thats been upgrade to 66Mhz with 18MB of Ram and a soon
to be upgraded hard disk.  Since there is no CD ROM I was going to use my NT
server running FTP to do the install.  Everything starts out ok with the NIC
being detected and connectivity is there, however, it seems that the install
is looing for a long setup file name in the /Redhat/rpms directory.  It has
problems with many files and when I look at the cd the file names appear to
be shorter.  Is this a limitation of NT's being able to read the full file
name?  Any suggestions on how to get by this?  I have an old Soundblaster 16
card that has cd support and a 8 speed CD that I could (but would prefer not
to) install temporarily, but I doubt that it supports booting off of the CD.
Please e-mail me directly at ronaldr@ozemail.com.au if you have any
feedback.  Thanks.

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