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Re: term vs. SLiRP
- To: http://www.tiac.net/~testlab (Gerry Baker)
- Subject: Re: term vs. SLiRP
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:06:51 -0700
- In-Reply-To: Gerry Baker's message as of Aug 21, 7:40am
- XX-from: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)
> From: http://www.tiac.net/~testlab (Gerry Baker)
> Date: Wed Aug 21, 7:40am
>
> >I just read about SLiRP in a Linux Journal. If all you have is a shell
> >account, that may be a better solution for you.
> >
> >Did you ever get term working?
> No as Win95 eudora ftp and netscape are soooooo easy to setup and use. It's
> not time efficient to deal with term though I'm interested in being able to
> know how to use and set up them. Norm Rice has my Linux system now and is
> very impressed with what's included software wise. But he asked how to deal
> with the 1 meg Bios hard disk limitation?
BIOS? I don't understand -- most Linux kernels do not use the BIOS. He
should really compile his own kernel. I recommend anything from 1.2.13 on
since this has ELF support which you'll need to use the latest Netscape.