> I have a laptop that I've made into a thin client, with its root on NFS.
> It loads the kernel off a USB FD from DOS using LOADLIN.EXE (my FD is
> shot, so I used a '98 box to make the disk bootable), and from that point
> on it operates entirely over the network.
>
> My thing is, I'd like to install a normal distribution (with X and sound)
> onto this beast, but every distro I've tried (RH 7.2/8, SuSE 7.2/8.1,
> Xandros 1) either has an X-based installer, or requires you to use their
> boot medium to install it. What distribution can I download with a
> text-based installation program?
Redhat (all versions) has a text based installer that you can start with
"linux text" at the boot prompt. Fedora has, in addition to the text
installer, a VNC based method that you can use across the network. These
options are available even if you boot across the network.
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