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PLIP Install HOWTO

Gilles Lamiral, lamiral@linux-france.org

$Revision: 1.40 $ $Date: 07 23:46:32 $

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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.

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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

• 1.1 Source side
• 1.2 Target side
• 1.3 Final tests

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

• 14.1 Slakware installation
• 14.2 Caldera Installation
• 14.3 Troubleshooting

15. Installing RedHat 6.x

• 15.1 Using a fixed "bootnet" disk
• 15.2 Building your own "bootnet" disk

16. Installing RedHat 7.0

• 16.1 Creating your own bootnet-plip disk

17. Installing Suse

18. Installing from a DOS partition

19. Install the plip interface permanently

• 19.1 On the source side
• 19.2 On the target side

20. Compatibility with a printer (lp)

21. Need to compile a new kernel ?

22. Known problems

• 22.1 plip 2.2.14 versus 2.2.16

23. What's new

24. To do

25. List of contributors and acknowledgements

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