PLIP Install HOWTO

Gilles Lamiral, [email protected]

You can find the latest release of the PLIP-Install-HOWTO, by Gilles Lamiral, located at:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PLIP-Install-HOWTO.html

If you have already read this HOWTO and you wonder what is new is this release, first read the section what's new.

1. Introduction

2. License

3. How did I write this howto ?

4. What do you need ?

5. The documentation

6. Conventions

7. Building your own cable

8. Network parameters

9. PLIP on the Source side

10. The cdrom nfs server side

11. FIPS, PARTED, splitting of hard disk partitions

12. Debian installation

• 12.1 Preparing the two floppies
• 12.2 The real installation process
• 12.3 An installation break: PLIP on the target side
• 12.4 Return to the normal install process

13. Installing Slackware, RedHat, Caldera

• 13.1 Slakware installation
• 13.2 Caldera Installation
• 13.3 Troubleshooting

14. Installing RedHat 6.x

• 14.1 Using a fixed "bootnet" disk
• 14.2 Building your own "bootnet" disk

15. Installing from a DOS partition

16. Install the plip interface permanently

• 16.1 On the source side
• 16.2 On the target side

17. Compatibility with a printer (lp)

18. Need to compile a new kernel ?

19. What's new

20. To do

21. List of contributors and acknowledgements