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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>
  • To: phil AT pricom.com.au, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] An an unusual project . .
  • Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 16:04:47 +0000 (UTC)

aha1542.o (14.6K) for the Adaptec is at the baslinux site under additional modules.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/add-ons/2_2_26/modules/scsi/aha1542.o

The NE2000 module appears to be ne.o

Only a few of the more common (at the time) modules were included in the main download so that it would fit on floppies.

There is also a kernel optimized for 486.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/add-ons/2_2_26/zimage.4dx

You can also compile your own optimized kernel 2.2.26 which includes those modules and omits unused ones. Or put together your own floppy version of BL to run directly on your hardware. I managed both and posted about it.

On Sun, 9 Oct 2016, Philip Rhoades wrote:

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
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