|> > 2) Use a null modem cable to connect to a desktop and piggy back |> > ride on that systems CD-ROM. |> > |> > Q: I don't know if the Linux base system supports null modem |> > connections. Anybody any idea? |> |> Yes, it does. I have just installed debian on a laptop which only |> has a floppy drive. I put the base system on floppies, and |> installed the rest with a null-modem cable and ppp. To set it up, |> put this in /etc/ppp/peers/provider: |> |> /dev/ttyS0 115200 |> 192.168.2.2:192.168.2.1 |> noauth |> |> and the same on the other system, just swap the ip addresses |> arround. of course you will need another debian system to connect |> to for this method.
Or set up a PLIP connection between the two machines, using the null modem cable. This lets you mount the CD file-system on one machine and then use NFS to also mount it on the machine that only has the base system. Very fast. You can then use the `Ready Mounted File-System' access method in dselect. This was how I installed 2.0 on a laptop that had neither net access nor a CD-ROM drive. There's an excellent short article about setting up PLIP connections in Linux Journal Issue 50 (June 1998). Jim
