[NBLUG/talk] How Low Can We Go?

Stephen Cilley hydro_mancer at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 19 08:19:19 PDT 2006


That sounds great, but is it going to be ok to use a
PCMCIA card off of the floppy install?  I mean, if so,
I've got a wifi card right here, couldn't I just use
that?
Thanks,
Stephen

--- Kyle Rankin <kyle at nblug.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:00:43AM -0700, Stephen
> Cilley wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > Thank You,
> > Stephen
> > 
> 
> Probably the simplest thing to do is to get the set
> of base Debian boot
> floppies for a net install and see if you can borrow
> some sort of PCMCIA
> nic. You should be able to get at least a 10bT
> PCMCIA NIC from HSC for
> really cheap. Then you boot off the floppies and get
> it going far enough to
> set install Debian over the network.
> 
> Alternatively you could use the suggestion made
> earlier in the thread about
> removing the laptop drive and installing on it from
> another machine, but
> that shouldn't be necessary once you get this
> machine on the network.
> 
> -- 
> Kyle Rankin
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> The North Bay Linux Users Group
> http://nblug.org
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