On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 Ninad wrote :
Hi Recently I bought a new motherboard and assembled a PC. The config is Intel P4 2.4ghz D845GVSR 256mb RAM,on board sound card,Dlink external modem.
Thats cool
I used the HDD and cd rom drive of my old pc (a branded IBM PC) for the new one.
ok
I am duall booting Win XP and Slack 9.1 ( i am
I'm sorry for not getting this one, you mean you have a dual booting system on the new PC right ?
Now I have this pc as a spare PC for which I bought a HDD(40 gb) and also got a crossover cable.
The old one...isn't it ?
This Pc has a config of Celeron 500mhz 64mRAM 40gb HDD no CDrom No floppy drive. I want to connect these two PC's My questions 1.Can I make this old PC a linux only box (dual/triple boot Linux only) and connect to my dual boot new PC. this means that my primary partition should be linux native.
yes you can do that by a serial link
2.If (1) is possible then how do I load linux in this PC which has no Cd rom/floppy drive.
You may kickstart your Linux Installation by configuring your 1st machine as a NFS server and make the directories from the installation CDs available to the client (old machine) in the /etc/exports. If you do not have the floppy drive on the client you mave have to copy and mount the boot image as well from the server. That would be a little off the way.
3.Which distro will be suitable as a primary distro. (i do not have problem if there is no GUI am comfortable with CLI)
Any Debian based GNU/Linux
4.Alternately I can create a Fat32 partition and load may be Win 98SE
Why do you want to do that when you have plenty of Free OS at your disposal ?
Any replies would be appreciated Thanks Ninad
Sameer Niphadkar wrote:
yes you can do that by a serial link
2.If (1) is possible then how do I load linux in this PC which has no Cd rom/floppy drive.
You may kickstart your Linux Installation by configuring your 1st machine as a NFS server and make the directories from the installation CDs available to the client (old machine) in the /etc/exports. If you do not have the floppy drive on the client you mave have to copy and mount the boot image as well from the server. That would be a little off the way.
Dear Sameer,
This is interesting. :-) What is the technique with the serial cable? Assuming PC A is fully loaded and NFS linux dump folders are globally available, how does the other PC B which has an unformatted HDD and no floppy/cd get booted? How does PC A see the HDD of PC B through the serial cable? Normally HDDs have either hdan, hdbn, hdcn or hddn within the 2 IDE ports. What is the device name in PC A for the HDDs in PC B?
Thanks and Regards,
Rony.
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Rony Bill -
Sameer Niphadkar