Peter Hardy wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:45:41PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
> > Only way I could see to do this with any degree of ease would be to use
> > toms or something similar to make a PPP connection over a null modem cable
> > to another Linux boxen with a CD drive, then copy the relavent packages to
> > the hard disk, then run your boot floppy and tell it you're installing
> > locally.
>
> This is pretty much how I was going to do it. Even the base packages are in
> the order of 10 floppies. I'm too lazy to shuffle that many disks, and I
> have all the cables I need. But I couldn't see any ppp capability in toms
> disks. Which is why I started tinkering with the deb boot disks, with the
> goal of maybe installing via nfs (could we get any more evil?).
>
> > You'd need two partitions, though - one to put the packages on {maybe you
> > could reuse it later for swap, if you're doing a minimal enough
> > installation and can keep the size down}, and one to do the install on.
>
> Also considered using the swap partition. But it would be possible, and
> fairly simple, to just ext2 format the root partition, and dump all the base
> packages into /base, or somesuch. Then I get to actually use the swap,
> which will be handy.
>
> Peter
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The latest version of toms is 1.7.354 it contains a lot of new goodies.
It doesn't appear to have ppp but it does have both slattach and plip.
Ken
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