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PLIP Install HOWTO

Gilles Lamiral, lamiral@mail.dotcom.fr

v1.22, 16 June 2000


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

1. Introduction

2. License

3. How did I write this howto ?

4. What do you need ?

5. The documentation

6. Conventions

7. Network parameters

8. PLIP on the Source side

9. The cdrom nfs server side

10. FIPS, PARTED, splitting of hard disk partitions

11. Debian installation

12. Installing Slackware, RedHat, Caldera

13. Installing from a DOS partition

14. Install the plip interface permanently

15. Need to compile a new kernel ?

16. What's new

17. To do

18. List of contributors and acknowledgements


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