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Operating Systems Linux OS for Compaq Presario 1685 Post 302350239 by Leppie on Thursday 3rd of September 2009 07:27:20 AM
Old 09-03-2009
i have used this method on old systems (386s and 486s) and can tell you it did work for me. obviously not all hardware is the same and chances are that this may cause issues on this particular system. but generally i would say that this does work on older systems where usually the problem is that booting from cd is not supported by the bios (like on somewhat newer systems booting from usb may not be supported whilst booting from cd is supported).

i do not know the minimum system requirements for puppy, but a guess is that he may be better off with something like dsl or deli linux since he's got severely outdated hardware. i've used dsl on an old machine with 500mhz cpu and 192mb ram. only using things like firefox and openoffice, etc. is really slow. however, since this machine has only 32mb of ram it's most likely not possible to use these applications anyway.

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in.rarpd(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      in.rarpd(1M)

NAME
in.rarpd, rarpd - DARPA Reverse Address Resolution Protocol server SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/in.rarpd [-d] -a /usr/sbin/in.rarpd [-d] device unit DESCRIPTION
in.rarpd starts a daemon that responds to Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) requests. The daemon forks a copy of itself that runs in background. It must be run as root. RARP is used by machines at boot time to discover their Internet Protocol (IP) address. The booting machine provides its Ethernet address in a RARP request message. Using the ethers and hosts databases, in.rarpd maps this Ethernet address into the corresponding IP address which it returns to the booting machine in an RARP reply message. The booting machine must be listed in both databases for in.rarpd to locate its IP address. in.rarpd issues no reply when it fails to locate an IP address. in.rarpd uses the STREAMS-based Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI) message set to communicate directly with the datalink device driver. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -a Get the list of available network interfaces from IP using the SIOCGIFADDR ioctl and start a RARP daemon process on each interface returned. -d Print assorted debugging messages while executing. EXAMPLES
Example 1 Starting An in.rarpd Daemon For Each Network Interface Name Returned From /dev/ip: The following command starts an in.rarpd for each network interface name returned from /dev/ip: example# /usr/sbin/in.rarpd -a Example 2 Starting An in.rarpd Daemon On The Device /dev/le With The Device Instance Number 0 The following command starts one in.rarpd on the device /dev/le with the device instance number 0. example# /usr/sbin/in.rarpd le 0 FILES
/etc/ethers File or other source, as specified by nsswitch.conf(4). /etc/hosts File or other source, as specified by nsswitch.conf(4). /tftpboot /dev/ip /dev/arp ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWbsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
svcs(1), boot(1M), ifconfig(1M), svcadm(1M), ethers(4), hosts(4), netconfig(4), nsswitch.conf(4),attributes(5), smf(5), dlpi(7P) Finlayson, R., Mann, T., Mogul, J., and Theimer, M., RFC 903, A Reverse Address Resolution Protocol, Network Information Center, SRI Inter- national, June 1984. NOTES
The in.rarpd service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier: svc:/network/rarp Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). The ser- vice's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command. SunOS 5.11 20 Aug 2004 in.rarpd(1M)
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