Julian Richardson wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get RH6.0 installed on an old Gateway laptop (hence, no
> CDROM) using a PLIP remote install.... has anyone managed to do this
> successfully??
>
> I got two machines hooked up with a homebrew laplink cable but get
> transmission timeouts between the laptop and my desktop machine when
> trying to use RH6's bootnet install disk. I can ping the laptop at this
> point from the desktop machine.
>
> I think this is probably just a shielding problem with my cable (I'm
> running about 1.75 metres over unshielded cable), but wanted to check
> that there's no bugs with the PLIP install in RH6 before I try to hunt
> down some better cable....
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
Try to use the "plipconfig" command on your desktop machine to change
the default timing parameters ... This solved the timeouts I had between
a K6-2 333 and a P100 laptop because PLIP connection is sensible to the
CPU speed of each machine.
