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

Sean,


On 2017-02-26 09:05, Sean Mozo wrote:
> Phil,
>
> This reply may be late and you've already sorted things out for
> yourself, nevertheless I just wanted to chime in with a suggestion as
> follows:


No, definitely not too late - it is an ongoing thing that I have to sort 
out in between other projects and life dramas!  If it is OK with you I 
will give this another shot in a few weeks and report back here?

BTW, do people here know about micro-kernels?  How do they relate to 
producing a very small system for things like I am trying to do? ie 
being able to boot from floppies with a reasonably complete system?

Many thanks!

Regards,

Phil.


> 1. Copy your needed modules and the ssh add-on to a third floppy.
>
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/add-ons/2_2_26/modules/scsi/scsi_mod.o
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/add-ons/2_2_26/modules/scsi/aha1542.o
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/add-ons/2_2_26/modules/net/ne.o
>     http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/add-ons/ssh.tgz
>
> 2. After booting with the first two floppies and logging in by
> pressing enter, insert and mount the floppy you copied those files to.
>
> 3. Change to the /fd directory and use insmod to load your modules.
>
> 4. Set up your network connection. (e.g. "ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100"
> and "route add default gw 192.168.1.1")
>
> 5. Use "pkg ssh.tgz" to install ssh add-on.
>
> After that you should be set to mount your hard drive and dd your
> image through ssh.
>
> The caveat here is having enough RAM to load all of this into the
> ramdisk BL is operating from so hopefully this isn't the case for you.
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