On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Steven wrote about, Re: Serial networking ?:
> Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> >
> > My next line of research will be how to get slip / plip working
> > at boot time wwith a minimum of floppies ;-(
>
> And Richard Adams said:
> >
> > I installed all the A series and N series, which is a total of
> > 24 disks, however you can cut that amount down considerably.
>
> Only one floppy is required: tomsrtbt (which happily networks
> via plip or slip). tomsrtbt has all the tools needed to prepare
> a Linux partition and untar a complete filesystem into it.
The origanal question was how do i do it with slackware-7
There are more spesific floppy systems which supprt networking, however
they may not all help when slackware is involved.
>
> Alternatively, Slackware7 requires three floppies: bare.i,
> color.gz and network.dsk. This will allow you to use plip
> (which is on network.dsk) to install the rest of the distro
> via NFS. The slhc and slip modules are also on network.dsk,
> so a slip install may be possible (hopefully you will find
> slattach after you boot the color.gz filesystem).
Unfortunaly that will not work as there is no slattach supplied in the
bootdisks.
AFAIK, the modules are supplied for slip and plip, however there are no
configuration tools for them.
>
> Or, you might want to try BasicLinux, which does plip/slip
> networking (as well as dial-up ppp). It uses a compressed
> image file which can be booted from a DOS partition on your
> HDD or from two floppies. It's a 2meg download from here:
> -----------------------------------------------
> http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.zip
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
>
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