PLIP Install HOWTO

• Index
• What's new
• PLIP for the impatient
• Introduction
• License
• How did I write this howto ?
• What do you need ?
• The documentation
• Conventions
• Building your own cable
• Network parameters
• PLIP on the Source side
• The cdrom nfs server side
• FIPS, PARTED, splitting of hard disk partitions
• Debian installation
• Installing Slackware, Caldera
• Installing RedHat 6.x
• Installing RedHat 7.0
• Installing Suse
• Installing from a DOS partition
• Install the plip interface permanently
• Compatibility with a printer (lp)
• Need to compile a new kernel ?
• Known problems
• To do
• List of contributors and acknowledgements

23. What's new

This tag is automatic so it IS the reference. (Sometimes I forget to update the version number and the date)

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Revision 1.40  2002/07/07 23:46:32  gilles
Corrected tag problem

Revision 1.39  2002/07/07 23:42:27  gilles
Added Richard Barrington in "acknowledgements" section.

Revision 1.38  2002/07/07 23:15:53  gilles
Added a "Known problems" section
Added "plip 2.2.14 versus 2.2.16" section. Thanks Matt.

Revision 1.37  2002/07/07 22:56:44  gilles
Adapted insmod parport_pc to 2.4 kernel

v1.36, 3 December 2001

• Changed the licence. Do what you want.
• Added a Suse section. Thanks Graham.
• Added a PLIP for the impatient section.
• Changed my email address.

v1.31, 21 April 2001

• Corrected a bad url in section "Installing RedHat 7.0". Thanks Leonard.
• Corrected broken links find by the nice clink software.

v1.30, 13 April 2001

• Added section "Installing RedHat 7.0". Thanks Leonard.

v1.28, 18 December 2000

• Corrected more mistakes in my English. Thanks again Graham.

v1.27, 11 August 2000

• The SLIP line was not needed, SLIP is serial line oriented. The PPP line was partly wrong, we need PPP support by the kernel.

• Corrected more mistakes in my English, though I know that more remain and new ones come every time I write a sentence...

• Added a "compatibility with a printer" section.

• Added a Null-Printer == Null-Modem comment.

• Added a "build your own cable" section.

• Corrected a bug in the Slackware section. Here (inverted IP adresses). Thanks to Brad Rigby.

• Removed obsolete paragraph from the "Introduction" section.

• Added request for information about translations in the "Introduction" section.

• Mentioned the "what's new section" at the top of the document.

• Added a vc-header in the What's new section

• Added the WHAT_IS_NEW label

v1.22, 16 June 2000

• Added a mention to PARTED http://www.gnu.org/software/parted as told by Andrew Clausen (clausen@gnu.org).

• Added section Installing Slackware, RedHat, or Caldera, by Florent SAUNIER.

• Corrected some English faults, thanks to Graham and Tomas.

v1.15, 26 November 1999

• The section "What's new". It is this section.

• The section "Install the plip interface permanently".

• The section "List of contributors and acknowledgements".

• Joined the different chapters dealing with the detailed Debian installation to form a single chapter with the actual chapters as just subsections.

• Made a new section "Installing from a DOS partition". A simpler and faster method.