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PLIP Install HOWTO

Gilles Lamiral, lamiral@mail.dotcom.fr

v0.10, 24 October 1999

This paper describes how to install a Gnu|Linux distribution on a computer without Ethernet card, nor cdrom, but just a local floppy drive and a remote nfs server attached by a Null-Modem parallel cable. The nfs server has a cdrom drive mounted and exported.

You can find the last release of the PLIP-Install-HOWTO, by Gilles Lamiral, located at:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PLIP-Install-HOWTO.html

1. Introduction

2. License

3. How did I wrote this howto ?

4. What do you need ?

5. The documentation

6. Conventions

7. Network parameters

8. PLIP on the Source side

9. The cdrom nfs server side

10. FIPS, splitting of harddisk partitions

11. Debian installation

12. Preparing the two floppies

13. The real installation process

14. A install break: PLIP on the target side

15. Return to the normal install process

16. Need to compile a new kernel ?

17. Todo

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