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To: Gregory Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
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Subject: Re: Installing over laplink 
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:16:39 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> I've been told I can install FreeBSD on my laptop from my desktop by
> setting up a ppp connection on the parallel ports using a laplink
> cable. This sounds great, but although I managed to set up my user
> ppp, I'm not having any luck with this. Can anyone give me some
> details on this procedure?

 - Insert laplink cable in appropriate orifices
 - ensure that "lp0" was listed at boot time (use 'dmesg' to check)
 - apply "ifconfig lp0" on each machine to set interface paramters

And if all that is correct, you're in business.

mike