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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sat, 8 May 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > I could not get plip to work again. 
> 
> Are you talking about Linux plip?  Or DOS plip? 
> Or laplink?  Or interlnk/intersvr?  

Linux plip did not work with one Hercules-type MGA card.  Laplink pro for 
DOS worked fine with that card.  Linux plip worked on five other cards, 
one of them in that computer.  I never heard of DOS plip, and I don't use 
interlnk/intersvr because it tends to freeze up or crash.

> 
> Do they all fail?

Linux plip fails. Llpro works fine, and it also works with either parport.  
Linux plip has only worked for me with parport0 and I cannot find 
instructions to use with parport1. Llpro figures out what port you are 
using somehow.

The above problem occurred only with one card.  Plip normally works 
(except on two computers with other problems).  It worked in this computer 
with a different card.

Fs.img is a separate problem.  I have been unable to transfer it 
successfully (with the same md5sum) on an otherwise working llpro or plip 
connection, even if I zipped it first with pkzip.

> > and then I can attack fs.img again, somehow.  
> 
> Interlnk/intersvr has always worked for me.  Or,
> alternatively, you could split the file into two 
> floppy-size pieces.

My fs.img is now over 4M since I added a few things.
I will try interlink where llpro and plip failed.


> It sounds like the floppy version of BL3 might be quite
> useful for installation.  It includes the install-to-hd 
> script (which I'm currently rewriting to use lilo instead
> of loadlin.exe).

Yes, I expect it will be a lot easier to transfer the hard drive version 
without fs.img in it.  I look forward to this version with lilo too.

Sindi
 
> Cheers,
> Steven