On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:59:30 +0100 Andreas Tscharner <starfire@dplanet.ch> wrote: > Hello World, Re World, ;-) > > I have an old DX-4 (80486 - 100MHz) laptop. I want to use it as > printserver. The problem is: It has no CD-drive. > > So my idea was to use my NE2000 compatible network card on the laptop and > export (NFS) my CD drive on my desktop computer. Therefore it should be > possible to install via NFS. I finally set it up. Instead of using NFS, I installed the system using HTTP as Hubert Chan had suggested (Thank you). The effective setup of the printserver was mostly a trial and error exercise as the documentation is not as good as I have expected... Thank you all for helping and a happy new year! Best regards Andreas -- Andreas Tscharner starfire@dplanet.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook
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