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[Philip Rhoades <phil AT pricom.com.au>]

People,

I have spent DAYS checking out many 1, 2 and 3 FD Linuxes but I haven't 
found ONE that will do everything I want . . I did however find BL which 
is quite nice and has a functioning mailing list!  As an exercise, I 
want to create a VM image from a SCSI drive in an old Red Hat (NOT 
Enterprise) v5.2 Linux 486 machine (circa 1999) with:

- an ISA Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller attached to a Seagate 2GB drive 
with 6 partitions

- an ISA ne2000 network card

- a 1.44MB FD

So, to create the image of the 2GB SCSI drive that is in the 486, I need 
to boot the 486 on one or more floppy disks and dd the /dev/sda drive 
over SSH to a file on my big Fedora 25 x86_64 workstation.  The problems 
are that I haven't been able to find a Floppy linux that has everything 
I need: dd, ssh and built-in recognition for the Adaptec controller and 
the NE2000 card . .

It would have been easier if I had had a PCI Adaptec SCSI controller 
that I could put in a newer machine with the old drive and then just do 
the dd locally but I don't really want to have to buy one that I would 
probably never use again . .

Are there people here who could me get all the bits going on BL?

Thanks,

Phil.
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Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil AT pricom.com.au