Installing Redhat 8.0 over SLIP or PPP Serial port connection

[Switch247]

I have a Mandrake 9.0 box, and and old 200MHz computer that cannot boot from a CDROM. I thought "Hmmm...Network Install? But no network card...!"
Then I remembered somewere that I had seen someone install Linux over serial network, and So I spent four hours cobbling together a null modem cable, DB9 to DB9. I now have a problem. All the relevant howtos that I've got are over PLIP connections, and I need a SLIP or PPP connection. After I setup the connection, would I just tell it to look at "/mnt/cdrom"? How would I go about setting up the connection?

Thanks,
Jake

[mdwatts]

You've tried all the suggestions in the 'network install plip' (http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=network+install+plip&btnG=Google+Search) how-to's and tutorials?

Since you cannot boot from cdrom, can you not just create the bootdisks from the diskette images on the installation cd and boot from those?

[Switch247]

My general goal was to do this this way. I can boot from the floppy, but that would take all the fun out of it, now wouldn't it? Thank you for the link, but I was looking for a (S)LIP connection, not (P)LIP. I don't have the proper cable for a (P)LIP connection. Maybe it is in one of the links, I will look and see.

Jake

[mdwatts]

Just change the search criteria to 'network install slip' (http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=network+install+slip&btnG=Google+Search).