serial connection

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>>>>> "Jochen" == Jochen Reitzig <elvis@eikon.tum.de> writes:

    Jochen> I am not really sure if you are dealing with such kind of
    Jochen> problems. Here we go: I've bought a Toshiba 4x86 Notebook,
    Jochen> without pcmia, cdrom, or whatever. My idea is, in order to
    Jochen> connect the notebook to the rest of the world, to
    Jochen> establish a ppp connection over the serial port using
    Jochen> mgetty, any a NullModem. Is that basically possibel
    Jochen> (assuming I manage a basic Linux System). Has ever anybody
    Jochen> done things like that? And how did he install the Linux
    Jochen> without CDROM's Is there any kind of Floppy Distribution?
    Jochen> (I know that this is not what this mailing list is dealing
    Jochen> with...;-) Thank you, jochen

You can install Linux from floppies, but it is Slooooooooooooooooow!

The last time I did a floppy install was 1994, and I think it to about 
70 1.44 MB floppies for the full blown thing.

Regarding the serial hookup, I used a serial PPP link between 2
machines before I set up my ethernet LAN.  If the distance is short
(like 2 meters or so) you might want to use PLIP instead, as it is
quite a bit faster, but PPP definately works.  

You do not need mgetty to do a null-modem ppp connection; just run ppp 
manually all by iyself.

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