Re: PLIP install (was Re: Still no base tarball)
Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:
> Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon-computing.com> writes:
>
> > Aside: were it not for the flexibility of the Debian installtion process,
> > I'd probably still be using slackware right now. I had previously been put
> > off by the fact that stable appeared to be rather out-of-date, and the err,
> > cough, interface to ds... cough... was a little unf... cough. I was able to
> > install onto a 486-50 laptop with 4MB RAM using 7 floppies (created on a
> > slackware box) followed by nfs over PLIP (no Adam, no network either). None
> > of the other major distributions would install on that box *at all*. Having
> > installed the system, and been forced to learn a little bit about dselect,
> > I was converted.
>
> I'm curious. Does PLIP work in the woody boot-floppies?
>
> Are there things we could do to make installation via PLIP network
> easier?
An important thing to notice in the docs is that plip seems to need
the irq _and_ io set when loading the module to work properly. I
tested it with several systems and archs and it never worked completly
without options (even though it said it would use correct irq and io
settings after probing). The symptoms are that all seems to be correct
but plip just gives timeouts.
MfG
Goswin
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