On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 13:48, Alan L Tyree wrote: > Hi, > > I have a perplexing problem. I want to run a single floppy distro > (Bering) on a box that has been through the wars. I have no monitor > for it and all the serial ports have been fried in a lightning strike. > > The distro runs (I can ping the box), but the floppy is too small to > install ssh or anything similar that I know about. Without ssh I can't > even get the ppp link up. > > The old Laplink for dos systems had a self installing system. That > sounds like a security nightmare, but I wonder if there is anything > similar that I can use to transfer communications software onto this. > > Any help gratefully accepted. >
A TFTP client would probably fit on the floppy, then it could get other files off the network (into a ramdisk?). http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/7.2/i386/tftp-0.17-14.i386.html Good luck =) Felix -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
