Re: Re: EDE Elk´s

Pat Gilliland
2006-04-27T14:58:47Z

>I have a Toshiba 1100+ laptop too and after some hiccups was able to
>install ELKS last year on it. The laptop has only 720KB floppy drives
>though. I have not tried installing any TCP/IP ELKS work or any
>compilers, just the basic ELKS stuff.
>The biggest problem is getting a 1.44MB floppy drive to write a 720KB
>floppy without making errors.
>so i gave up after a while and ran kermit using MSDOS and used a null
>modem to connect to a Linux box.
>Has anyone been able to get the TCP/IP stuff for ELKS working on any
>machine <286 ?

Hi Vikas,
I'm glad to hear you got around the 720 floppy problem. I have the tcpip
stack installed and once or twice, I have been able to pull something from
the webserver via a slip connection over serial cable. It works but not
consistently.
Patrick Gilliland
InkPot Productions
www.inkpotproductions.ca
(613) 722-1439
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