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Of the two linux on a disk distributions one supports plip but not ftp
and the other has ftp but no plip!!  In the meanwhile, the error
message at the last moment of RH installation is "I cannot log into
machine: failed to connect to ftp server" - so it looks like the ftpd
thing is the trick - what to do?

the inetd.conf file reads fine - all seems ok!

At the command line I have tried a) typing nothing other than the plip
setup stuff b) typing /usr/sbin/in.ftpd c) typing /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
and many combinations of the above.

Where to guru?

>
>is it running?  Two ways to check.
>
>try ftping to the box - from your 486 booted from the linux
>floppy you have should be the go.
>
>If you can type
>	ftp ip-of-pentium
>from the 486 and get a login prompt, you are fine.
>
>If you can't, you have to get that running first.  It's usually started
>up by /etc/inet.conf, so look at that file, find the ftp entry,
>check all files referenced exist etc.  if still problems, let me knwo.
>
>OK, so you get a login prompt.  Log in with your username and 
>password.  Don't use root, it's a security hole, redhat have probably
>closed said hole by not allowing root to do it.  (Do not do your
>normal work as root, always log in as a user and su to root)
>
>check you can get ftp happening, and can cd to the cdrom dir.  then boot
>the 486 from the floppies you made and follow the prompts, using the ftp
>method and plip as the driver.
>
>Zebee