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> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sindi wrote:
> > The floppy version does not need to access your scsi drive.

> So, it's a scsi drive?  Does that make his primary
> hardrive /dev/sda and his partitions /dev/sda1
> /dev/sda2  ...etc... ?

Yes.

> If /baslin is on the DOS C: drive, is that /dev/sda1 ?

Assuming C: is the first or only partition, and there is just one drive, 
yes. (If the first partition is ext2 or linux swap, no.  If DR-DOS was 
used, partition order could be scrambled.)

> > Install to hard drive
>
> Unfortunately, he can't install to /dev/sda if the
> kernel can't see /dev/sda.  We first need to get
> scsi capability into the kernel.  We might be able
> to do that with an insmod.  Unfortunately, I have
> no scsi hardware, so I can't test it myself.

> Sindi, can you tell us which modules you insmod
> to get scsi capability into a running kernel?
> Or is it not possible to do that?

insmod scsi_mod  (86K for 2.2.16)
insmod sd_mod  (25K for 2.2.16)

I don't think they will fit on the second floppy disk but you can load 
them from a third floppy disk.

scsi_mod is needed for all scsi devices

sd_mod for scsi hard drives (and also USB storage 
devices and scsi and even parport zip drives).

sg and sr_mod for cd burners (which in kernel 2.2 and 2.4 imitate scsi)

> > boot with alternative kernel bzimage.big
> > (2.2.26) from the BL site, which has built-in
> > support for scsi hard drives.
>
> Yes, the BL3 big kernel should work and it will
> be a simple replacement once BL3 is installed
> to HD.  However, getting the big kernel into
> the floppy version (or the DOS version) is not
> so simple.

> > To boot with this kernel using the DOS loop setup,
> > you would need to modify a file to point at /dev/sda1
> > instead of /dev/hda1
>
> The file is linuxrc and it resides inside initfs.gz
>
> > It is complicated.
>
> Yes it is.  First you gunzip initfs.gz.  Then you
> mount it (using -o loop parameter).  Then edit,
> exit and gzip.
>
> Perhaps we should do a modified initfs.gz that
> looks for /baslin on /dev/sda1 ?  But first we
> need to be absolutely sure that the DOS C: drive
> will be /dev/sda1

You mean modify the floppy version to handle scsi drives?
In that case also include sda2 3 4 and 5.
Or at least 4, which is a scsi zip drive.
Sindi

> Cheers,
> Steven