Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
>
> My next line of research will be how to get slip / plip working
> at boot time wwith a minimum of floppies ;-(
And Richard Adams said:
>
> I installed all the A series and N series, which is a total of
> 24 disks, however you can cut that amount down considerably.
Only one floppy is required: tomsrtbt (which happily networks
via plip or slip). tomsrtbt has all the tools needed to prepare
a Linux partition and untar a complete filesystem into it.
Alternatively, Slackware7 requires three floppies: bare.i,
color.gz and network.dsk. This will allow you to use plip
(which is on network.dsk) to install the rest of the distro
via NFS. The slhc and slip modules are also on network.dsk,
so a slip install may be possible (hopefully you will find
slattach after you boot the color.gz filesystem).
Or, you might want to try BasicLinux, which does plip/slip
networking (as well as dial-up ppp). It uses a compressed
image file which can be booted from a DOS partition on your
HDD or from two floppies. It's a 2meg download from here:
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http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.zip
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Cheers,
Steven
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