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is this possible. i was just thinking if i have a serial keyboard for my aging P166 back at home and im not sure if it was shipped back to the province. my rough idea is to boot the 166 with a floppy-based distro and do a network installation using ssh.

 

can anybody refine/refute my idea? i still dont have any specifics on how this can be done so any input is appreciated.

 

ciao!

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This may be possible. I have an idea, but for that you'll have to ensure that your P166 is well booted, networked, and equiped (in software). This last point is impossible with a simple floppy-distro.

So I suggest you find, or adjust, or create yourself, a floppy-based distro with at least a ssh deamon, and a NFS client. Configure this distro to mount as much as possible by NFS from BigPC. Test it on BigPC until this works, then boot P166 with this floppy, and connect via SSH.

 

So you are in control of P166 via SSH, and P166 is equiped with all the software from BigPC, thanks to NFS.

 

Based on that, I'm sure you can follow the instructions on http://linuxfromscratch.org/, because their instructions are to make a linux distro on a partition, by using the tools from an already-installed distro.

 

If you want to use a regular distribution, such as Mandrake, then NFS is also your friend (or maybe FTP, I don't remember), because then a network install is possible with a simple boot floppy, whose image is provided on the install CD.

 

Yves.

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