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- This directory contains a bootable floppy disk image that should allow you
- to boot linux on any 386 or 486 PC with a supported ethernet card.
-
- The kernel is linux-pl10 + ALPHA-diffs + one line fix + minor ioperm mods
- (which you really don't want to know about).
-
-
- FILES
- -----
- README -- this file.
- linux-pl10a.gz -- the bootable root disk image.
- scsi-xt-boot.gz -- boot floppy with scsi, xt kitchen sink etc support.
- usr.bin.tgz -- user networking binaries *unpack in /usr*
- usr.etc.tgz -- networking daemons etc *unpack in /usr*
- keymaps.tgz -- non UK keymaps (cp to /etc/keymap)
-
- 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).
-
- UPDATE: the scsi-xt image now has all standard filesystems (i.e. ext and
- xiafs are in).
-
- If you are on the Oxford campus the image will mount a /usr partition from
- ftp.robots, else where you must provide your own /usr. Attempting to mount
- from ftp.robots will force me to remove this service, the current linux nfs
- code will produces far to high ethernet and nfs server load to not cause
- major disruptions.
-
- Although the ftp.robots /usr partition contains Xfree86, it is not possible
- to run it over nfs as mmap is not supported over nfs (please feel free to
- implement this and send the patches to linus - it isn't _that_ hard...).
-
-
- 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
-
-
- INSTALLING FROM THIS BOOT IMAGE:
- --------------------------------
-
- The aim of this image was to allow people to try linux before committing
- themselves. It should be possible to also use it as an install base.
-
- Use fdisk and mkfs prepare your hard disk in the normal way. Then mount the
- new root partition on /mnt and you can use the /bin/copy_rootdisk script to
- copy everything to your new root partition
-
- e.g.
-
- #mount -t ext2 /mnt
- #/bin/copy_rootdisk
-
- Then edit /etc/lilo/config (/etc/lilo/config.hda is an example hard disk
- setup) and run:
-
- /etc/lilo/lilo -r /mnt
-
- to install linux on your hard disk.
-
- If you don't have a UK keyboard, remove /etc/keymap (for US keyboards) or
- replace /etc/keymap with the correct map from the keymap.tgz archive.
-
- The rest is up to you.
-
-
- BUGS:
- ----
-
- The binaries in usr.bin.tgz and usr.etc.tgz, are recent but possibly not the
- most bug free, if you know of a superior version of any of these please mail
- me at the address below. rlogin does works between a PC and SUN which makes
- a change
-
- Jon. <jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>
-