On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:56:47PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I have an original Netpliance i-opener that I am about to turn into
: my second RedHat system, hopefully.
:
: I wanted to ask you experts what was the best way to get from where I
: am.. (finished with the first phase of the conversion, I have it
: booting Windows 98 and I have about 3.5 GB of unpartitioned hard disk
: space..and about 1 GB of unused Windows partition..) to a working
: Linux system.
:
: (This is going to be a fun little box, one thing I like is that it
: has no fan! It will be very quiet...)
:
: My big quandary.. How to get Linux installed without having USB
: networking support on Linux.
:
: This machine has no floppy, no CDROM drive, and it doesn't have any
: kind of PCI or ISA bus for a currently supported networking *card*
:
: However, it does have a hard drive (now) and USB, which is how I have
: it networked under Win*lows
Take the drive that you're going to install on, and make it the primary
master in another box, install Linux on it, then put it in the i-opener.
As for the networking stuff, if you can get the USB backport working
with USB ethernet adapters, go for it, otherwise, look at one of those
xircom parallel port ethernet adapters. Those are known to work with
the i-openers..
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Jason Costomiris <><
Technologist, cryptogeek, human.
jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
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