From: ramesh@utdallas.edu (R. Ramesh) Subject: [Q] Linking thru serial lines. Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 00:11:34 GMT
Hi:
I am trying to set a lab full of PC's running Linux. I neither have ethernet
card nor a tape drive. So have to configure one Linux box at a time. To make
things easy, I had the following plan. First I will setup one PC and then
setup others thru serial line download of the files. The only glitch is that I
don't know how to set up the cabling between the serial lines for a successful
download. I tried the following without success.
1) Connect the com2's together of the two PC's in question with a
female-female null modem cable.
2) setup both serial ports (/dev/cua2) for 38400baud, 8bits, crtscts, noparity
-ixon clocal.
3) from the source machine (the one which has a complete setup) I did a
tar cvf /dev/cua2 and at the sink I did a tar xvf /dev/cua2.
Well, tar on the source side starts firing but the destination side gets
nothing. What am I doing wrong?
BTW, here is my configuration (both m/c are same)
Gateway 486/33 (Vesa local bus)
16450 based serial ports (total of 2 serial and 1 parallel)
Linux 0.99 pl 8
Actix GEPlus (801 with 2M Dram) video card
General setup with the latest of the binaries (as far as I know).
Any help would be appreciated.
Ramesh