serial connection

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On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, 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,

Yap that is quite possible. Run PPP daemon on the linux "server". Or
if u want a faster solution (U don't mention the OS of the notebook, but
this will work under win & linux) you can also use PLIP. Which is PPP
through the parallel port.

> any a NullModem. Is that basically possibel (assuming I manage a basic
> Linux System). 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...;-)

Maybe he used an external HD or a Jazz drive? It's also possible to
install it over NFS. (probably with a disk image that has PLIP support)

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