These 5 floppy image's contain almost complete support for getting all your hardware going on a Intel i386/i486/i586/i686 Pentium Pro and Pentium II system. Network, SCSI , filesystem and PCMCIA support is included. I use these images always first when I get a new Intel system in front of me. boot.img : the boot floppie, boots linux kernel 2.0.29 root.img : comes next and loads a redhat 4.1 runtime as a ram disk. It needs at least 8 Mb RAM. If you have only 8 Mb RAM and want to use the support images, then for instance mount first a filesystem (e.g. msdos) and install a swapfile : login as root, no password required :) # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swapfile bs=1024 count=8192 # mkswap /mnt/swapfile 8192 # sync # swapon /mnt/swapfile rootrh50.img : is the same as root.img but loads a full featured redhat 5.0 runtime as a ramdisk. You can just use rootrh50.img together with the other images. It has the same functionality as root.img but with the following additional features : vim ftp ps rlogin telnet (tiny telnet) color-ls complete e2fsprog kit This image already contains its insmod end rmmod binary's and uses glibc2 (libc6). supp1.img : contains modules to load : - filesystems : affs.o nls_cp850.o nls_iso8859-6.o sysv.o hpfs.o nls_iso8859-1.o nls_iso8859-7.o ufs.o isofs.o nls_iso8859-2.o nls_iso8859-8.o umsdos.o ncpfs.o nls_iso8859-3.o nls_iso8859-9.o vfat.o nls.o nls_iso8859-4.o nls_koi8-r.o xiafs.o nls_cp437.o nls_iso8859-5.o smbfs.o - cdromplayers (NON SCSI NON ATAPI): aztcd.o cdu31a.o gscd.o mcd.o optcd.o sjcd.o cdrom.o cm206.o isp16.o mcdx.o sbpcd.o sonycd535.o - IPV4 : ipip.o rarp.o - network cards 3c501.o bsd_comp.o e2100.o hp.o sdla.o 3c503.o de4x5.o eepro.o hp100.o slhc.o 3c509.o de600.o eexpress.o ne.o slip.o 3c59x.o de620.o eql.o new_tunnel.o smc-ultra.o 8390.o depca.o eth16i.o ni52.o smc9194.o ac3200.o dgrs.o ewrk3.o ni65.o tulip.o apricot.o dlci.o fmv18x.o plip.o wd.o at1700.o dummy.o hp-plus.o ppp.o supp2.img : contains modules to load : - SCSI cards : 53c7,8xx.o aha1542.o eata_pio.o ppa.o ultrastor.o AM53C974.o aha1740.o fdomain.o qlogicfas.o wd7000.o BusLogic.o aic7xxx.o g_NCR5380.o qlogicisp.o NCR53c406a.o dtc.o in2000.o seagate.o advansys.o eata.o ncr53c8xx.o t128.o aha152x.o eata_dma.o pas16.o u14-34f.o - Misc drivers (o.a. isdn) appletalk.o cyclades.o ipx.o msbusmouse.o riscom8.o atixlmouse.o ftape.o isdn.o pcbit.o teles.o busmouse.o icn.o lp.o psaux.o supp3.img : contains PCMCIA stuff and util binary's for redhat41 en redhat50: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56232 Jan 22 18:46 find* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6609 Mar 9 10:34 hex drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jan 6 17:16 lost+found/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118 Jan 6 18:14 lsmod -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20368 Mar 9 10:28 more -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45246 Jan 12 11:26 ntfs.o drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Jan 6 18:03 pcmcia/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71576 Jan 6 17:20 unzip -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54040 Jan 6 17:20 zip Getting the network going : 1. # mkdir /usr/tmp 2. # vi /etc/hosts (plug in your ip numbers and host names) 3. mount supp1.img : # mount /dev/fd0 /floppy # cd /floppy/sbin # cp insmod /sbin (only for redhat41 runtime) # cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts # cp ifcfg-eth0.org ifcfg-eth0 # vi ifcfg-eth0 (plug your ip number and netmask and broadcast address) # cd /floppy/modules/net # insmod 3c509.o ( if your NIC is such a card ) # cd /etc/rc.d/init.d # ./network stop ; ./network start # ping hostname ( ping some host on the network ) Getting SCSI going : 1. mount supp2.img : # mount /dev/fd0 /floppy # cd /floppy/sbin # cp insmod /sbin (only for redhat41 runtime) # cd /floppy/modules/scsi # insmod aic7xxx.o ( if you have a aha2940 scsi card) Getting PCMCIA going : 1. mount supp3.img : # mount /dev/fd0 /floppy # cd /floppy/redhat41/pcmcia # cp -ap * / & # cd /tmp/pcmcia/init.d # cp pcmcia /etc/rc.d/init.d # /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start Getting FAT32 going : 1. mount supp1.img : # mount /dev/fd0 /floppy # cd /floppy/sbin # cp insmod /sbin (only for redhat41 runtime) # cd /floppy/modules/fs # insmod nls_cp437.o # insmod nls_iso8859-1.o # insmod vfat.o # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt ( If hda1 contains a FAT32 filesystem) Getting XXX going : E-Mail me at stock@Linux.COM or at stock@InfoMagic.NL Robert M. Stockmann Support Infomagic NL VOF Last changed Mon Apr 13 23:53:13 MEST 1998