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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Is there some other program in SW I can substitute for nc at
> > both ends, or at least at the receiving end?
>
> Have you got a TCP/IP network going between the two machines?
> If so, run httpd on BL3 and wget (or lynx) on Slackware.

I set up plip at both ends.  ifconfig plip0 ...1. pointopoint .....2
 and 2.... 1

Mini_httpd says it cannot establish a connection on the sending computer.
It worked at first, before I remembered to ifconfig and ping, but then 
would not work.  Something about not finding a free address, I think it was.

BL3 won't boot on that computer, using the p1 kernel.  It complains about 
loop.  It used to work there.  It never worked on the computer next to it, 
loop won't insmod.  How would I go about using the BL3 busybox (with 
httpd) in BL2?  Should I just overwrite the old one?  I can try BL3 httpd 
on yet another computer if we move the laptop there.

I can ping from the sending to the receiving computer but not vice versa 
(I get timeouts).  Does this mean the parport port is bad?

(I think ping was working before I tried to set up httpd but I may have 
been pinging myself by accident - will start over again some time).

The pcmcia slot does not appear to recognize the ethernet card, in Redhat 
or SW40.  No cards found in either slot.

We will attempt to get vmode.com out of a Win98 CAB file on CD and use it 
to transfer llpro to the DOS partition to at least test the parport.

If that port does not work, we will try it via serial cable, llpro to 
transfer BL2 ramdisk with nc, and then slip.

I could also use SW40 minicom to download llpro at 14.4K, assuming the 
serial port or pcmcia modem can be made to work.  If they don't, we don't 
want to take this computer on a trip anyway.

At least we have a working hard drive and a reliable boot.

In order to boot from DOS, can we remove lilo with fdisk /mbr (in linux)? 
I have set up loadlin for SW40 and can use it also for Redhat if I need 
Redhat again.  Right now it keeps booting to Redhat.  To access SW40 I 
have to boot from the CD (which takes 10-15 minutes to load, scratched) 
and then chroot to the hard drive (or boot with root=/dev/hda3 after the 
CD starts to boot).  Chrooting from Redhat does not work properly because 
of different kernels.

> > Or some other way to send files over a plip connection?
>
> ftp

I think I would need to get an ftp server on the sending computer first.

utelnetd seems to load.  I don't know how to send files over telnet with 
minicom.

> > Can I do http over it, for instance?
>
> Yes.  Once you've got a TCP/IP network running (via PLIP)
> you can run any server/client over it.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
> ____________________________

We found FreeDOS (nonbootable) on CD but the files are all in packages, 
not individual.