From: Joshua Hudson (joshudson@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2001 - 16:48:28 CEST
>From: "Guillaume Cornet" <CornetGJ@Cardiff.ac.uk>
>
>Hello, I am new here. I have just subscribed and I am not sure I'm
>already registered.
>
>I'am studying abroad for one year, and have come here (Cardiff, UK)
>without any computer. I'm trying to run linux on the university
>network.
>
>I know, that's bad, but the clients are Windows NT 4.0, and I can't
>have fun with Windows.
>
>I want to use muLinux, to play with it. Well, it runs, but in RAM
>(128Mb or 256Mb, it depends on the computer, but it's enough,
>anyway). The network cards are eepro100, so that's OK.
>
>But the network is a Novell-based one, and the muLinux kernel doesn't
>support IPX protocol. I have read in the doc/kernel.txt that IPX was
>compiled as a module for that kernel. But I can't find it in the
>distribution. And I'm quite sure that I have looked everywhere!
>So I need to compile a kernel. But I lack disk space. The hard disks
>are in HPFS. And muLinux kernel doesn't support it. As I don't have
>the network yet... what can I do? (As you can see, muLinux is the
>only possible linux for me at the moment! I looked some other mini
>distributions home pages, but none of them seem to have ipx and
>ncpfs, except one called monkey linux, but the loop device is
>compiled as module, so that kernel is not usable with muLinux).
>
256mb! It just might be able to compile a kernel in ram.
muLinux does support NTFS read only. I believe that Windows NT
does not support HPFS, and rather the hard drives are ntfs.
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