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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Can you use 2-floppy BL3 on a computer with DSL connection?
  • Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:09:33 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

How is a 'cable modem' connected to a computer? I just discovered
the owner of the broadband computer has comcast.

Same way as a DSL connection box, ethernet or USB. I put modem in scare
quotes because it's not a modem, it's more like a network router + card.

Would this also most likely have IP number 192.168.1.254?

I looked at other 1 and 2 floppy distributions and a few of them
had diallers, or 'links,' but none had graphics. How would the
ones without diallers be used, with dchp and ethernet?

Yeah, same procedure. If you're going for really small, there's that
1diskxwin distribution. Xvesa and an X11 web browser on just one
1.44 mb floppy. You need an ethernet connection on a card that takes
the ne or 3c59x module to get on the Internet, though.

No need for X just to get online to read email at a shell account.


HAL91 looked useful for parallel port zip drive - it boots from one
disk and the second disk has scsi modules and ppa, works in 8MB ram
on a 386, ftp, telnet, pppd. It has an editable rc file that you
can make changes to but I did not understand how you would change
configuration files.

Would it be possible to put BL2 or BL3 on 100MB parport zip drive
then set up 2-floppy BL2 with these modules (delete unneeded
modules and add scsi_mod and sd_mod and ppa), boot from floppy disk
and mount then chroot to zip drive? This would be smaller and
lighter than a laptop computer to take to friends' houses. Add an
external modem. This assumes friends will have serial ports and
floppy drives.

Who needs chroot? If you can detail the procedure you use to load
the modules and mount a zip drive, I can make a floppy that will load
the kernel off the floppy, load modules, mount the zip drive, and boot
the rest of BL from there.

David
--

The drive is going to be mailed to us some day but I think the procedure is to boot, insmod scsi_mod, insmod sd_mod, maybe also ide-scsi (? with parameters?), insmod ppa, mount /dev/sda4. I could probably put all this in rc but how would I boot from sda4? Using lilo and a /boot directory on the disk?

I have not yet used a parport zip drive, which is not really scsi.

I only know how to use loadlin (or stick in a 2-floppy BL3).




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