Hi Mirek, There is plip. It's IP via parallel port.
HOWTO <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/PLIP.html> I'm surprised your notebook does not have a serial port. If it does, you can purchase a NULL serial cable for communications. Elizabeth Mirek Dobsicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > I've just succeded installing PotatoR6 on an old laptop (486/66, 8MB > RAM, 510 HDD). > > I've installed base system using floppies ... uff, it was pain. > Then I coppied debs of vim and mc to next floppies and installed > vim and mc using dpkg -i . It took me about 3 hours. > 50MB off HDD is used now ... sounds good. > > I'd like to add more packages but not using floppies anymore. > > The notebook does not have network card, either modem. So I have > to use parallel cable and connect it to my "big" machine. > > And here comes my questions: > What to setup, config and run on notebook and big machine > to be able to on the notebook then simply type > > apt-get install .... > > > If this task is too hard to do, it would also fine if I could > downloaded debs on my big machine transfer using paralel cable > to notebook. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
