Re: [Rule-list] Re: no ppp support in install kernel?

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Sunday 19 May 2002 08:18 am, Gordon Buzowetsky wrote:

> Hey guys....been watching this with much interest..
>
> I have no experience whatsoever with nfs....

That makes two of us. These are my first attempts at NFS. I did manage a 
few installs without issue using NFS over a 'real' network connection.

> Why not a PLIP install?

I'll look into it. I didn't have a cable, or the connectors available to 
make one yesterday.

> Laplink cables are not terrible expensive, and it ain't fast but plip
> seems to work as well as anything else of this genre......;-)    This
> is definitely not a newbie friendly install; but  the lack of a cd
> drive will cause one to go to extreme measures to get an install to
> work.

Another option perhaps, is an external cdrom connected via the parallel 
port. I think we have one at work I can borrow for testing.

> Tiny Linux uses PLIP to get Slack 4 installed on older boxes....why not
> us??

Worth a shot, we'll have to see if it works.

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