[Rule-list] Re: no ppp support in install kernel?

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Sunday 19 May 2002 02:36 am, Richard Kweskin wrote:

> > I decided to try along with you. I grabbed an old abandoned laptop
> > from work (Zeos 486, 8M of RAM, 80M hard drive, external floppy), and
> > made a null modem cable.
>
> Assuming the 80MB is too little, would this not be a candidate for
> becoming a "thin" client?
> I ask because of having several 386's with 80MB disks.

It would, if it had the ability to use a network card of some sort. The 
slip link is (to my mind, anyway) just too slow to accomplish much of 
anything. Granted, that may have been nfs overhead that caused the slow 
directory listing. It took better than 5 seconds to display the contents 
of an nfs mount with < 10 files in it. A thin client/server setup might 
be an option.
Gordon suggested another cable option that is worth looking into. You can 
make a special parallel cable (laplink) and connect via parallel ports.

> Some years ago, playing with serial to serial connections, using
> intersvr.exe and interlnk.exe under dos, the machines were left all
> night to transfer the pkunzip command to leave an entire partition (or
> disk) ready to run win95 or 98 or even 2000! depending on the hardware.
> The trick was to install on some computer similar enough, but yet
> having more memory and/or more disk space.

OK, I won't give up just yet. :) I'll keep looking at it. Anyone else is 
free to do the same and report anything useful. :)

> Too bad nfs doesn't put up with an all night session. Had hoped it was
> more tolerant.

I was surprised myself. I haven't given up entirely, and I'll see if 
perhaps I missed something that might improve performance/fault 
tolerance.

Matter of fact, I'm nearly done getting a system installed on this foolish 
laptop. I'll detail it later, if it boots. :) It's ugly, and not for the 
faint of heart, but it might just work.

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