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# PLIP Install HOWTO

## Gilles Lamiral, `lamiral@linux-france.org`

$Revision: 1.40 $ $Date: 2002/07/07 23:46:32 $

This paper describes how to install a Gnu|Linux distribution on a computer without Ethernet card, or CD-ROM, but just a local floppy drive and a remote nfs server attached by a Null-Modem parallel cable. The nfs server has a cdrom drive mounted and exported.

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 in this release, first read the section what's new.

## 1. PLIP for the impatient

- 1.1 Source side
- 1.2 Target side
- 1.3 Final tests

## 2. Introduction

## 3. License

## 4. How did I write this howto ?

## 5. What do you need ?

## 6. The documentation

## 7. Conventions

## 8. Building your own cable

## 9. Network parameters

## 10. PLIP on the Source side

## 11. The cdrom nfs server side

## 12. FIPS, PARTED, splitting of hard disk partitions

## 13. Debian installation

- 13.1 Preparing the two floppies
- 13.2 The real installation process
- 13.3 An installation break: PLIP on the target side
- 13.4 Return to the normal install process

## 14. Installing Slackware, Caldera

- 14.1 Slakware installation
- 14.2 Caldera Installation
- 14.3 Troubleshooting

## 15. Installing RedHat 6.x

- 15.1 Using a fixed "bootnet" disk
- 15.2 Building your own "bootnet" disk

## 16. Installing RedHat 7.0

- 16.1 Creating your own bootnet-plip disk

## 17. Installing Suse

## 18. Installing from a DOS partition

## 19. Install the plip interface permanently

- 19.1 On the source side
- 19.2 On the target side

## 20. Compatibility with a printer (lp)

## 21. Need to compile a new kernel ?

## 22. Known problems

- 22.1 plip 2.2.14 versus 2.2.16

## 23. What's new

## 24. To do

## 25. List of contributors and acknowledgements

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