These 9 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 III systems. Network, SCSI, filesystem
support is included. I use these images always first
when I get a new Intel system in front of me.


boot2213.img :	the boot floppie, boots linux kernel 2.2.13
		this kernel is build for a i386. The minimum RAM to boot
		it is 16 Mb physical ram. This is because a 8 Mb
		ramdisk filesystem is created.

rootrh61.img :	comes next and loads a redhat 6.1 runtime as a ram
		disk. It needs at least 16 Mb RAM. If you have only
		16 Mb physical 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=16384
		# mkswap /mnt/swapfile 16384
		# sync
		# swapon /mnt/swapfile

		To install extented utilities like :
		( vim ftp ps telnet (tiny telnet) ) 
		insert the utils.img floppy and run :

		# install-utils

modules.list is a listing of the contents of the several suppXXXX.img
floppy's . All floppy images are .tar.gz tarr-balls just dd-ed onto
the floppy. How do I get a module extracted?

Say for instance you have a Boomerang 3com905b fastethernet card.
Locate the apropiate module inside modules.list. The 3com905b card is
supported under Linux by the 3c59x.o module. ( To find out which module
name is supporting which hardware I, at this time of writing, point
to the Linux kernel source. This source can be found at :

	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.13.tar.gz

From modules.list we see that 3c59x.o is inside the net.tar.gz tar-ball
which is on the suppnet.img floppy. Insert that floppy in the computer
and proceed as follows :

		# cd /lib/modules
		# mkdir 2.2.13
		# cd 2.2.13
		# tar xvzf /dev/fd0 net/3c59x.o
		# sync ; sync	( Remove the floppy )
		# depmod -a
		# insmod 3c59x


Getting the network going :

1. # vi /etc/hosts		(plug in your ip numbers 
				 and host names)

2. Make sure the apropiate ethernet card module is loaded (see above)

   # cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
   # cp ifcfg-eth0.org ifcfg-eth0
   # vi ifcfg-eth0		(plug your ip number and netmask
				 and broadcast address)
   # cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
   # ./network stop ; ./network start
   # ping hostname		( ping some host on the network )

Getting SCSI going :

1. Make sure the apropiate scsi card module is loaded (see above)

   # insmod aic7xxx.o		( If you have a Adaptec aha2940U2W card)

Getting FAT32 going :

1. Make sure nls_cp437.o nls_iso8859-1.o and vfat.o are loaded
   from the suppfs.img floppy, see above how to extract a module.

   # depmod -a 
   # insmod nls_cp437 
   # insmod nls_iso8859-1
   # insmod vfat	( a modprobe vfat will automaticly load the nls_*
			  modules )
   # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt  ( If hda1 contains a FAT32 filesystem)

Getting XXX going :

   E-Mail me at stock@sba.nl or at stock@infomagic.nl

Robert M. Stockmann
Last changed Sun Mar 26 22:31:12 CEST 2000