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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> Does the FD BL3.40 need 8MB RAM to boot 

No.

> 4MB is used for ramdisk

The floppy version of BL3 uses two ramdisks.

> and I think 8MB if available 

That's BL2.

> 9K of 3c509.o fits on disk2.  Please include it in the 
> next BL if possible.  

3c509.o is available at the BL3 site.  

> Most of our ISA cards are 3com 3c509.  

I have a dozen ISA network cards.  Only one is a 3com.
Half are NE2000.  The rest are wd's and SMC's.

> It told me:
> eth0:  3c509 at 0x300....IRQ7  (about 2 lines of text)

What did those 2 lines say?  

> ifconfig eth0 192.169.1.1
> 
> Illegal instruction

I assume that was 192.168.1.1

> This computer has a 33MHz bus 386SLC cpu and currently no 387 in it.

Thanks for your input, but I don't think we should draw too
many conclusions from a 386SLC.  It's a non-Intel 386/486
hybrid that caused problems even for DOS users.

> I presume the busybox commands oversimplified hardware calls.

If I were a busybox coder, I would ignore the 386/486 DLC/SLC.

Cheers,
Steven