[MLB-WIRELESS] Looking for a floppy based OS for wireless routing on a Laptop.

[Kim Hawtin]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 07:24:31PM +1000, Matt Chipman wrote:
> >  Is there an OS that supports routing with OSPF out there that I
> >  can run on an HP Omnibook 800 Pentium Laptop with the Enterasys
> >  Wireless card and a Xircom CreditCard Ethernet Adapter IIps?
> >  The lappy has no CD so floppy is the only way to load stuff at
> >  the moment....oh, and it's been formatted with DOS.
> >
> >   I've been looking and all I can find is confusion and broken
> >   links....  please help!
> It is possible to load linux from the boot floppies and then the
> rest of the os over a serial or parrallel cable.
> 
> Since you have a ethernet card as well.  If you install Debian for
> instance, you can do the rest of the install over the net via ftp
> or http (automated) through yours or someone elses LAN.
> 
> A base Debian install that will support OSPF will be ~100 meg ....
> nice!

yup, this is just what i have done... now am experimenting with
zebra.

yours,

kim
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