Hi all,
Some time ago I was given a MicroSolutions BackPack Bantam Series 6
parallel port CD-ROM (model 181150); the open-source bpck.o driver did
not recognize this beast, but you can download the drivers from
MicroSolutions' web site. Unfortunately, this did not allow you to
install a box using just a floppy and a Bantam parallel port drive....
But.... I think I have finally finished it:
a bootdisk that will install RH 6.2 (and most likely also 6.1) from a
Backpack Bantam parallel port Series 6 CD-ROM drive.
This is a heavily modified startup disk that has a mini libc.so on it
and a bash shell script to manually load the Bantam drivers; this shell
script then transfers control to the CD's anaconda script. It uses a
regular 2.2.12-20 kernel (not the BOOT variant), since the backpack
driver has been linked against this kernel, but it also works with a RH
6.2 CD-ROM (thank you, RedHat, for introducing /etc/lang-table and
breaking the install when using a RH 6.1 boot disk :-)
What is missing on this disk:
- regular loader code (i.e. hardware probing, network loading, PCMCIA
stuff, etc)
There is some space available on the disk to include and load other
drivers, however.
I have tested this disk against a box with IDE drives only.
For me this solves a big problem, hopefully it will be useful for some
other poor schmuck out there... Where can I upload this file (I don't
have a publicly visisble web page, I'm afraid)
Regards,
JJK
Unix Software Engineer
Cisco Systems Inc
Waltham, MA
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