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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I compiled zimage.4dz based on Steven's standard BL3 (i386) kernel config 
file since he did not post one for the 4dx.  I change 486 to 486, answered 
N to FPU, and also to ide-cd and iso9660 (my computer has no CD-ROM 
drive), and to ethernet.  Since I use English I answered Y to 437 charset.
I added vfat because otherwise I need to mount -t msdos.

I had to ADD support for scsi (scsi_mod.o), sd (sd_mod.o), and imm.o (I 
also added ppp.o in case anyone has a very old parport zip drive).

The kernel which David used in the boot floppy for parport zip drive was 
for pentium only.  David, was this BL3 or BL2 kernel?  BL2 kernel already 
supports imm.o, don't know if BL3 zimage.p1 also does.

So it would not work with our zip drive on a 486 laptop, to which I wanted 
to transfer files via zip drive because it has no CD-ROM drive.  I don't 
know if BL3 zimage.4dz supports zip drives (386 version does not).  Mine 
ought to.  http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/zimage.4dz - 486 DX with parport 
zip drive support).

My kernel is 436K without ethernet or CD-ROM module support, but with 
vfat and four additional modules (scsi sd ppa imm) and Steven's .4dx is
432K with the support.

I have been using plip to transfer files to this computer but it messes up 
fs.img files.  So we split them to two floppy disks, but our floppy drive 
is also not working well.  Another option would be a PCMCIA ethernet card. 
I can buy a Xircom cheap and 2.2.16 has the driver module zirc2ps_cs.o for 
the RE-100.  Has anyone on this list used one already?

But we want to set up linux on three pentium laptops and copy from the 
first to the others, and don't want to buy two cards.  The parport zip 
drive is mobile.  We would need to transfer in 100MB chunks.  Without the 
compiler, I now have about 150Mb of linux files.  I could spend $15 for a 
used 250MB zip drive.  Or borrow one.

Or we could use one ethernet PCMCIA card and transfer via a desktop 
computer.

Other ideas?

On Sun, 15 May 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> I compiled another P1 kernel (does both sound and imm this time and I added 
> back most of the ethernet module support and posted it in case anyone wants 
> it for mplayer or mpg123)
>
> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/zimage.sb
>
> and then tried to reduce it to a 486-DX kernel, starting with the same 
> .config file but answering N to CD-ROM and ethernet and sound and the scsi 
> not needed for parport zip (scsi_mod and scsi_sd).
>
> make clean
>
> make config
>
> make dep
>
> make
>
> It made a System.map file in the main directory of about 150K and then 
> stopped, no error messages.  In /arch/i386/kernel I find lots of files ending 
> in .c .o and .S and there are other /arch/i386 directories but not a /boot 
> directory with zImage.
>
> I can start over using Steven's .4dx kernel .config instead but I am curious 
> what went wrong with my .config.  Should I post the non-# parts of it? I 
> tried three times with the same .config file
>
> A web search told me System.map was normal, but not why it stopped there.
>
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