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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!cdc2.cdc.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!news-master!news From: averba@eden.rutgers.edu (Andrew Verba) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: How do I install Freebsd over Parallel or Serial Port? Date: 27 Dec 1996 22:49:34 GMT Organization: Rutgers University Lines: 62 Message-ID: <5a1jpu$6pu@herald.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 61060d0009la.concentric.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33122 Hey, Anyone know how to install Freebsd over Parallel or Serial Port. I have used the ,Release version 2.1.6 installation disk, and was unable to locate any sort of option for this type of installation. I currently have a Freebsd 2.1.0 system running on my 386 33mhz machine, and would like to set it up on my Pentium. The 386 installation was performed via FTP by dialing to my local internet service provider. It states in the installation instructions, that this type of setup is possible, using PLIP for example, but there is no apparent way to do it. Sorry if this is in some faq. If it is please mail it to me. averba@gauss.rutgers.edu My other question is: The question above is more important and probably easier to answer(just a warning). I was trying to set up communications between the pentium and 386. Getting a dumb terminal to work through the serial port was easy, by modifing /etc/ttys. However, I would like to have many terminals open simultaneously, and even to run the pentium as an x-server. The pentium currently has windows 95 and NT version 4, and has xserver software. The prefered method of communcations would be the parallel port interface, and I have a lap link cable for this. The easiest way to solve this, I suppose, would be to buy two ethernet cards and install them in each machine. If I was to do this, what do I need to do in FreeBSD to get it on the two machine network? There is some kind of option in windows 95 networking that allows configuring the network. I think windows 95 has tcpip and nfs services built in. Does anyone have any info on this? The other way, would be to use a lap link cable through the parallel port because there are only two machines, and it is cheap. However, I have no clue how to set up freebsd in this case, to run PLIP. There is a packet driver for dos, plip.com, and I might be able to run sessions through dos windows with plip running and NCSA telnet for dos, under windows 95. Does anyone know what needs to be done on the Freebsd machine to get it to do tcpip over the parallel port? Finally, what happens when you have a tcpip network, and one machine on the network dials out and begins runing PPP. What happens to the IP address of that machine, and how does it still communicate with other machines on the private network. I am refering to a freebsd machine or a windows 95 machine. If anyone needs to know where to find plip.com (the dos packet driver) please ask, I will look it up for you. And ofcourse, feel free to ask me any questions that you have: My email address: averba@gauss.rutgers.edu Thanks for your time. Andrew