Re: Re[2]: DEBIAN Linux on floppy disks

[Kevin M Bealer]

On Wed, 12 Jun 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  use a cable to transfer the files to the laptop from the machine with 
  the cdrom. Dont forget to use a proper cable setup...
  
  It'll save your ass a ton-o-time. and you wont have to be splitting 
  files across floppies.
  
  I use xtgold's xtlink which works great...
  
  BUT - if you dont have xtlink...
  
  MS-DOG provides the software called interlnk, which does the same 
  thing - more or less.
(clip)

The linux kernel has PLIP (parallel line ip) which can do this once you get
a base system installed... look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation or in the
/usr/doc/HOWTO/PLIP-HOWTO (names may be garbled)... you need a laplink cable
and possibly a version 2 kernel on both ends.

This will provide an IP connection I believe ... you could then NFS mount or
FTP the stuff across.  If you NFS mount you can just install from those
directories... *warning* but I haven't tried any of these things.


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Re[2]: DEBIAN Linux on floppy disks

[David_Oswald]

 use a cable to transfer the files to the laptop from the machine with 
 the cdrom. Dont forget to use a proper cable setup...
 
 It'll save your ass a ton-o-time. and you wont have to be splitting 
 files across floppies.
 
 I use xtgold's xtlink which works great...
 
 BUT - if you dont have xtlink...
 
 MS-DOG provides the software called interlnk, which does the same 
 thing - more or less.
 

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Subject: Re: DEBIAN Linux on floppy disks
Author:  debian-user@lists.debian.org at INTERNET-PUB
Date:6/12/96 10:34 AM


 Fritz Ilg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 I am a Linux novice and I have a Slackware Linux distribution installed
 on my Toshiba 105CS Satellite, which works fine. I am planning to install 
 DEBIAN Linux on to my Laptop. Unfortunately I have no CD-ROM drive avail- 
 able with this Laptop which make this attempt impossible.
 I have one CD-ROM with the DEBIAN Linux distribution on it. As I am able 
 to run this CD on a Windows-based PC-System WIN95 on a seperat computer I 
 thought it might be possible to make floppys, like I did with the 
 Slackware distribution. I soon realized that a lot of files are too large 
 to fit onto the disk.
 
 Is there anybody out there ...who can give me some advises how I can 
 solve this problem.