serial connection

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Hi,

On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 10:32:14AM +0100, Jochen Reitzig wrote:
> I am not really sure if you are dealing with such kind of problems. Here
> we go: I've bought a Toshiba 4x86 Notebook, without pcmia, cdrom, or
> whatever. My idea is, in order to connect the notebook to the rest of the
> world, to establish a ppp connection over the serial port using mgetty,
> any a NullModem. Is that basically possibel (assuming I manage a basic
> Linux System). 

Sure, where's the problem? - you don't need mgetty for that, pppd is
sufficient.

> Has ever anybody done things like that? And how did he
> install the Linux without CDROM's Is there any kind of Floppy
> Distribution? (I know that this is not what this mailing list is dealing
> with...;-)

Some of the distributions did offer "install over PPP", no idea whether
that's still an option.  You could get also a parallel port network 
adaptor, some of them are supported by linux just fine.

gert
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