On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, 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??
Jules,
I tried several times to get this to work with RedHat and SuSE to no avail. I
was trying to load a libretto, which has a proprietary pcmcia floppy, e.g.
couldn't use the floppy beyond initial boot.
Since I'd purchased RedHat and SuSE I had install support, but that didn't
help :(. It was a free toy, so I didn't put much into it. Maybe I'll try again
this week to have it for our next Linux Demo Day event :).
Do you have an ethernet card? You're probably better off going for an nfs or
ftp install.
I think debian still does an initial install from 7 floppies. You could go
that way too.
I'd like to be able to do initial installs over serial, but don't know of any
dists that do and don't yet need it enough to build my own :).
ciao,
der.hans
> 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
>
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