[NBLUG/talk] How Low Can We Go?

Bob Blick bblick at sonic.net
Wed Apr 19 09:01:15 PDT 2006


> Sorry, yes, 3.5, my mind kept going to 5 1/4 and then
> me telling my mind it was wrong.
> The only piece of networking hardware it has on it is
> a dialup modem, so this should be fun.
> I don't even know what a null modem is.  There are
> three ports on the back, a serial, a parallel, and
> then one thing I have never seen before in my life
> which has two rows of seperated pins, it's very odd
> looking.
> Anyway, I think I'm going to have to use some floppy
> based install, because the rest seems a little over my
> head.

The forum at damnsmalllinux.org has floppy-only and floppy+network card
instructions.

Cheers,

Bob





More information about the talk mailing list