On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 02:56:59 GMT, Jennie St John <tillhhaturne232@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> ok tell me where you can get this decent how to

Where you get ALL the wonderful HOWTOs! The Linux Documentation Project

http://www.tldp.org/

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>> I use it to connect two boxes and its a breeze.
>
> alright and do i have to have an operating sytem already on it to do this or
> is this part of the slack prompt for your source

Well, by that time you DO have a rudimentary operating system loaded into
memory. I would think that it had PLIP support compiled into the kernel....

And yes, (a big gold star for YOU :-) it is "part of the slack prompt for
your source". You will need to point the install program at the PLIP interface
plip0

This is covered VERY thoroughly in the HOWTO. There is also a mini-HOWTO
on PLIP which I found very helpful. (Although the mini-HOWTOS are now
mixed in with the regular ones.)

The main one details a Debian install, but there isn't much difference, if
any. (at this level the distros are all pretty much alike, thank the gods)

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If I were you I'd get tomsrtbt http://www.toms.net/rb/
(which can be built on Windoze)

and use it to make the connection from the windoze box

It's a tiny OS with bunches of utilities (including PLIP support) that
loads as in a ramdisk from a floppy.

Just follow the simple directions in the FAQ that comes with the
sources. (get the ones for DOS, of course)

Boot it up in your windows box, (it will ignore Windoze) create the PLIP
link, mount the CDROM with Slack and you are there.

Everything is so much more straightforward on Linux!

In fact, I'd just boot up tomsrtbt in both of the boxes, (use the same floppy)
create the PLIP link between the two toms, format the laptop's hdd with fdisk
(which toms has) and copy Slack there. Now THAT's the easy way!

toms has nc (netcat) which would make copying Slack over a breeze!
And you'd then start the install program again from the floppies and point it
to the hdd.


>>
>> One of the brands of null-modem parallel cables is called "Laplink" or
>> "Turbo-Laplink" ....
>
> thanks for replying

My pleasure.


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