PLIP Install HOWTO
Gilles Lamiral, lamiral@linux-france.org
$Revision: 1.40 $ $Date: 2002/07/07 23:46:32 $
This paper describes how to install a Gnu|Linux distribution on a computer without Ethernet card, or CD-ROM, but just a local floppy drive and a remote nfs server attached by a Null-Modem parallel cable. The nfs server has a cdrom drive mounted and exported.
You can find the latest release of the PLIP-Install-HOWTO,
by Gilles Lamiral, located at:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PLIP-Install-HOWTO.html
If you have already read this HOWTO and you wonder what is new in this release, first read the section what's new.
1. PLIP for the impatient
2. Introduction
3. License
4. How did I write this howto ?
5. What do you need ?
6. The documentation
7. Conventions
8. Building your own cable
9. Network parameters
10. PLIP on the Source side
11. The cdrom nfs server side
12. FIPS, PARTED, splitting of hard disk partitions
13. Debian installation
- 13.1 Preparing the two floppies
- 13.2 The real installation process
- 13.3 An installation break: PLIP on the target side
- 13.4 Return to the normal install process
14. Installing Slackware, Caldera
15. Installing RedHat 6.x
16. Installing RedHat 7.0
17. Installing Suse
18. Installing from a DOS partition
19. Install the plip interface permanently
20. Compatibility with a printer (lp)
21. Need to compile a new kernel ?
22. Known problems
23. What's new
24. To do
25. List of contributors and acknowledgements
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