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

sindi,

Thanks for the fast reply!  See inline comments:


On 2016-10-09 03:04, sindi keesan wrote:
> 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


I missed that . .


> The NE2000 module appears to be ne.o


OK, good . .


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


Yes, I thought so . .


> There is also a kernel optimized for 486.
>
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/add-ons/2_2_26/zimage.4dx


But I guess that is also missing the Adaptec and NE2000 drivers . .


> 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.


Could you give me the link?

Thanks!

Phil.


> 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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> Sindi Keesan

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