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- From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
- Subject: bootable root disk with networking available
- Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
- Keywords: bootable root disk, networkin, TCP/IP
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
- Reply-To: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
-
- I have made available a bootable 3 1/2" floppy disk image for trying linux
- on any networked 386/486 PC (with a 3 1/2" A: drive and supported ethernet
- card)
-
- ***As with all network software get permission of your local network or
- system admin before attempting to use this image and make sure you know the
- correct network address for your machine***
-
- The image is avaiable from ftp.robots in /pub/linux/ox-usr/rootdisk, here is
- part of the README please read the complete file if you are going to try the
- disk.
-
- 8<--------README.SHORT--------
-
- INSTALLATION:
- ------------
- You can copy the image onto a floppy from most unix/linux machines with:
- gunzip < linux-pl10a.gz | dd of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
-
- Under msdog you will need to gunzip (with gzip.exe -d) the image then copy
- it to a floppy with rawrite.exe.
-
-
- LIMITATIONS:
- -----------
-
- The image will only fit on a 3.5" drive, so you must have a 3.5" drive as A:
-
- Booting is slow, the disk got pretty fragmented in setting up and I didn't
- use the lilo fast read options which don't work on all machines.
-
- The bootable root disk only has ide, nfs, minix, ext2, mouse and math emu.
-
- If you want to have SCSI or XT disk support, you will need to use the scsi
- boot image and then insert the bootable root disk at the prompt. (i.e. back
- to the old boot and root disk system).
-
- There is no support for SLIP - I don't have access to any SLIP servers.
-
- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- ----------------------
- You need to know the following information before you can successfully use
- this boot image - make sure you know the configuration answers before
- attempting to boot!
-
- 1) Permission of your local netadmin.
- 2) Your PCs host name.
- 3) The IP address of your PC.
- 4) The IP address of the gateway/default router out of your network.
- 5) The netmask for your network
-
- If you are outside Oxford you also need:
- 6) The IP address of your local named server.
- 7) a /usr partition that you can mount which contains the networking daemons
- in /usr/etc and user binaries in /usr/bin
-
- If you are not on a B or C class network the you will also need to know:
- 8) Your broadcast address
- 9) The net address for your network - what default packets for your local
- ethernet are routed to.
-
-
- BOOTING:
- -------
- Supported cards are
- The Novell NE-2000
- The 3c503 EtherLink II
- WD80x3 Western Digital (SMC) WD80x3. *#!
-
- If you don't have one of these you are on your own.
-
- *#! WD80x3 cards must have the shared ram address at 0x4E000 for them to work!
- Use wdsetup under linux or ezsetup under dos to set this up.
-
- Alternatively if the auto configure doesn't work you can stop the boot at the
- lilo prompt and give the ethernet card options there as
- ether=IRQ,IOADDR,SHMEMSTART,SHMEMEND,IS8BIT,eth0
-
- e.g.
- LILO linux ether=10,0x300,0x4E000,0x52000,1,eth0
-
- Jon. <jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>
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