By "direct cable conection", you do mean *Ethernet* cable, right? If not ... if you mean a serial cable, for example ... you can still do it, but it will be considerably harder. Remember that a direct-cable Ethernet connection needs to use a crossover cable (with the send and receive pairs swapped, sort of analogous to a modem-eliminator cable on serial links). The usual Slackware floppy startup is based on two disks -- the bootdisk and the rootdisk. You'll find images of them on the CD, probably in /bootdsks.144 and /rootdsks.144 (or some similat names). Use rawrite (under DOS, or a DOS window in Windows) or dd (under Linux) to make floppies from these images; make sure the floppies themselves have NO BAD SECTORS. The bootdisk directory will probably include a file called something like "whichone". Tis is a text file that is a guide to the different bootdisk images. You'll need one that supports networking and (probably) pcmcia, so you can install and accees the NIC on the laptop. This will let you set up your laptop to it can do a network install, from an NFS mounted directory. I'm afraid I don't know how to NFS-export filesystems under Win98, so someone else will have to tell you how to make the CD available for mounting on the Windows side. At 12:38 AM 3/18/00 -0600, EAMILLS wrote: >Ok, I've decided to go with slackware (no offense to rh people; my aunt >knew I was trying to get into linux, and gave me a book and two cd's). >Now I have a networking problem. I need to network a windows 98 machine >with a dos based laptop. the win 98 machine has a cdrom which I'm going >to try and use to install slackware to the laptop. I want to use direct >cable connection on the win98 machine, but I need to know how to boot in >linux from diskette(s) on the laptop so I can network to the cd on the >win 98 machine to the laptop and use it to install slackware. anybody >know how I can do this? thanks in advance ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
