Re: paralel cable

[Elizabeth Barham <soggytrousers@yahoo.com>]

Hi Mirek,

There is plip. It's IP via parallel port.

HOWTO <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/PLIP.html>

I'm surprised your notebook does not have a serial port. If it does,
you can purchase a NULL serial cable for communications.

Elizabeth

Mirek Dobsicek <m.dobsicek@sh.cvut.cz> writes:

> Greetings,
> 
> I've just succeded installing PotatoR6 on an old laptop (486/66, 8MB 
> RAM, 510 HDD).
> 
> I've installed base system using floppies ... uff, it was pain.
> Then I coppied debs of vim and mc to next floppies and installed
> vim and mc using dpkg -i . It took me about 3 hours.
> 50MB off HDD is used now ... sounds good.
> 
> I'd like to add more packages but not using floppies anymore.
> 
> The notebook does not have network card, either modem. So I have
> to use parallel cable and connect it to my "big" machine.
> 
> And here comes my questions:
> What to setup, config and run on notebook and big machine
> to be able to on the notebook then simply type
> 
> apt-get install ....
> 
> 
> If this task is too hard to do, it would also fine if I could
> downloaded debs on my big machine transfer using paralel cable
> to notebook.


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