You just got yourself one helluva job there...

I did the exact same thing.. I chose to keep my trusty old PII and bought a new heavy box with all the frills. Hey why throw a perfectly good thing + it was my first m/c :)

I had Win98SE on the old box and XP on the new one. I also got the crossover cable and setup my Lan Cards now you are neck deep in ####. Both of them just didn't want to talk to each other. Cutting this story short, I ran the Home Network wizard over and over and over and finally one really bright day, I could see my XP Share in Win98. (Please remember this needs the Guest account to be activated on the XP box) Otherwise Win98 is shut out. Still XP can't see the 98 box... god knows why (XP I believe came out later than 98 or am I in a time warp ???) I haven't dared touch my current setup

Then another really bright day, I got the bug of setting up Linux on the 98 box. I had the dream of surfing in Linux. I took out my RHL 8.0 Cds. To my great surprise I found RHL 8 won't install on XP after some desperate posts. On my 98 box, it just skimmed over in an hour. Now comes the sticky part, RHL 8.0 detects my modem but can't "activate" it. I haven't managed to get back to my adventure...

Pull up your socks man .. it's a rocky road ahead. Do let me know if you manage to get it all up. I will know that atleast one guy on this planet has set up a home network in 2005 without having the sudden craving for a Colt 45

Gishu

-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in [mailto:linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in]On Behalf Of Ninad Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:16 AM To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Home network (connecting 2 pc's)

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. I used the HDD and cd rom drive of my old pc (a branded IBM PC) for the new one. I am duall booting Win XP and Slack 9.1 ( i am Now I have this pc as a spare PC for which I bought a HDD(40 gb) and also got a crossover cable. 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. 2.If (1) is possible then how do I load linux in this PC which has no Cd rom/floppy drive. 3.Which distro will be suitable as a primary distro. (i do not have problem if there is no GUI am comfortable with CLI) 4.Alternately I can create a Fat32 partition and load may be Win 98SE Any replies would be appreciated Thanks Ninad