RE: Installing Debian from WindowsNT Pt. 2
John,
One option *might* be to put the 400mb hard drive in
one of the NT boxes connected to the net, formatted as FAT
(not NTFS). Download the packages you want (or the bulk of
the distribution if it will fit) to the added hard drive.
Then put the drive on the Linux box, mount it with
(assuming it is the second hard drive on the second ide
controller) mount -t vfat /dev/hdd1 /mnt
If your drive has multiple partitions you need to change the
1 in hdd1 to the number of the partition you are mounting.
The drive designations in /dev are:
/dev/hda - first (master) ide drive on primary controller
/dev/hdb - second (slave) ide drive on primary controller
/dev/hdc - first (master) ide drive on secondary controller
/dev/hdd - second (slave) ide drive on secondary controller
To get to the proper partition add the number to the drive
designation as I described above.
If you could convince the powers that be (I am guessing
you can't), a parallel port connected zip/jazz drive would
help you out a great deal - and there are HOWTOs on getting
them to work with Linux (I use and internal ATAPI zip drive).
Good Luck,
Pat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John_Gay@3com.com [mailto:John_Gay@3com.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 1998 3:40 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Installing Debian from WindowsNT Pt. 2
>
>
> After searching and searching the FAQ's and HOW-TO's I found that I could
> enable the COM port on the Linux box in the /etc/inittab file. I can now
> log onto my Linux box from hyper terminal on the Windows machine but I
> still can't access or send files from the Windows machine to the
> Linux box.
> I have been through and through all the info I can find on the WEB with no
> hope. Everything assumes the I have access to the net, but I don't. I also
> don't have a CD Drive. I have a Pentium motherboard with 16 M RAM, a 600M
> hard drive with Debian Linux installed and a 400M hard drive I
> installed as
> a second drive AFTER Linux was installed. I've never used Linux or UNIX
> before so I need step by step assistance. I realise this is going the hard
> way but my System Administrator won't allow a Linux box to be connect to
> the network. He is afraid that Linux will bring down his precious
> WindowsNT
> network?!?!?!?
> Is it possible to mount the second hard drive I added after installing
> Linux or will I need to re-install Linux. ( It's no big deal at
> this point,
> I have nothing but the Base Floppies installed right now) I've already got
> several people bugging me for access to a 'true Operating System' but I
> keep telling them I have to get the system installed first.
> Thanks again for any assistance you can give.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Gay
>
>
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