tlug: plip'ing

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Standlee <fwiw3980@example.com> writes:

    Eric> How do you get a kernel-package-less slackware to have a
    Eric> plip enabled kernel?

Build a kernel, put it on a floppy.  Make sure to answer Y, not M, to
all questions or you'll have to make and move the modules too.  Or
download Debian and load up from its floppies; I'm pretty sure Debian
provides PLIP as a module.

    Eric> What about a bootdisk that can handle PLIP'in?  If there
    Eric> were such a beast that could also handle the NFS stuff, I
    Eric> could us that floppy disk in any system on the other end of
    Eric> a null modem to slick Linux in...

Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt.  Build a kernel with
NFS capabilities and PLIP built in (or you'll have make an initrd with
the modules in it in the right places, nontrivial).  Put syslinux and
the new kernel on a floppy, set syslinux.cfg to boot up the kernel
with NFS root, fix /etc/exports to export your root directory on the
archive host.  (This is a very bad idea of course, but as long as
neither of the machines is connected to the internet, you probalby
will survive.)  Probably the export should be read-only to a private
IP address (eg in the 192.168.x.y range IIRC).

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