I am doing some networking for some colleagues on the same floor as me. One guy did not have a network card in his win98 machine so I bought a cheapie rtl8139 based edimax ($23).
However win98 does not have drivers listed and the damn floppy drive was foobared. I thought, bugger, shall I write the driver (about 4 small files) onto a cd and do it that way???? what a waste of time and a cd blank. his modem no longer worked as the plug had had the connection to the modem line removed in favour of a connection to the hub and then adsl. he was desperate to getting back to using his computer and to get his email. How else do I get a file onto a computer on which the floppy doesn't work and the network doesn't work? Suddenly I remembered the knoppix cd I had in my office. I put the floppy disk into my server and put the windows driver files in my linux server home directory. I booted the win98 machine in knoppix and mounted his hard drive rw. I then scp'd the four files onto the hard drive. (this is over the public internet even though the offices are 10 paces apart, we are not on the same internal lan). I then rebooted windows and was able to install of the driver files, now on the hard drive instead of the floppy. simple really and i'm sure you would all have thought of it while i was still scratching my head, but i was impressed by the way knoppix handled it. I gotta start carrying that knoppix cd in my briefcase! --
