On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Christian Leber wrote: > Doesn't matter, the first CD will be easily enough to bring up > networking and install the rest from the net.
There are a few other details which I was trying to skip to save you time. Oh well. :) I am trying to build a modem-sharing setup... for my awesome 33.6k dialup connection. Woo hoo. Actually the average speed is 31.6k or 28.8k, but that's what you get when you live ten miles out in the middle of nowhere. (No, I'm not gonna pay $600 for a high-latentcy satellite connection.) Meanwhile I am trying to use the external modem I use with Win98. For some reason the laptop is unable to use the modem at a serial line speed in excess of 19200 baud. Any higher and the modem returns random garbage, while it works just fine under Win98. I assume a laptop config problem at this point. I am told that Kermit lurks somwhere on that CD set, so for now the goal is to get kermit on the test system since it allows direct serial line control, so I can do some testing to figure out what the serial line problem is. Connecting to an online distribution is a real pain and takes a very long time at 19200 baud. Plus since I don't really know what I'm doing yet, I am regularly wiping out the install, reformatting and trying again. Therefore I'd rather not use an online source since I end up redownloading the same data everytime I reinstall. And since the drive in question is only about 4 gig, there ain't enough room to make a separate partition and download the while 6 gig distribution directory into it. So anyway, as I was saying, I need some way to access the CD set via my Win98 box, over the 10mbit LAN... and yes, I _really_ _do_ want to do that. It'd be far simpler than just about any other option. :)
