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>Installing Linux without cdrom</H3>
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<p><strong>From Berry Vos
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<p align="right"><strong>Answered By Ben Okopnik
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Hello,
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The other day I bought a second-hand computer. I already had a
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laptop-computer with <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/">SuSE</A> linux installed, which is running perfectly. I
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bought the new pc to install linux to experiment a bit without messing up
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my primary computer in case I do something wrong. The problem is that the
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new pc has no cdrom. Also, neither the new pc, nor my laptop has a network
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card. I wonder if it is possible to connect the laptop with the pc with a
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null-modem cable and install linux off of the laptop on the pc. Is this
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possible? If so, how?
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I hope you can help me.
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> [Ben]
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The process is thoroughly described on the last page of the PPP-HOWTO
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under "Using PPP across a null modem (direct serial) connection". You will
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need an actual null modem cable ("LapLink cable"), detailed in the
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Hardware Book (see the "hwb" package), in "ca_Nullmodem9to9.html". Don't
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just buy a regular "9-to-9 serial cable" from Radio Shack; it won't work. A
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lot of what are called "null modem cables" won't either. Buy a LapLink, or
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build one; if you can handle a soldering iron, it takes about 15 minutes.
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The one thing you want to be aware of is that, at best, you'll be pumping
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the data across at just over 11kB/s. To put that in perspective, copying
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the installation CD to your laptop (this is not necessary for the
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installation, but it'll give you an idea) will take approximately 16
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<em>hours</em>. I've done a <A HREF="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</A> installation by pumping across the base install
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files (24MB, about 40 minutes) and running them, then setting up 'apt' to
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FTP the individual files from the source machine via the serial link. I
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let it run overnight; by the time I woke up the next morning, it was all
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done.
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Not that this is a big deal - it wasn't to me, anyway - but you want to be
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aware of the time scale involved. <grin> I do love my serial link. It lets
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me get out of buying a PCMCIA NIC for a laptop that's on its last legs
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anyway, and 99% of the files are small enough that speed isn't really an
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issue.
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