Hello all,
I am currently rescuing an old EISA PC (HP Vectra 486/33U) with HPLAN 27245 and an Adaptec SCSI Adapter. It contains 2 HDDs - one 245 MB IDE drive and one 1 GB SCSI drive plus the 1.44 MB (3.5 inch) and the 1.2 MB (5.25 inch) floppies.
Prozessor: Intel 486 DX - 33 MHz (as the machine name suggests)
RAM: 40 MByte
To dump the existing content (which is still working), I want to boot a live Linux system that can do a "dd" of the harddisk over the network (via ssh).
Goal is to transform the old setup into a Disk-Image that can be used on a modern machine under Qemu.
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I created Slitaz boot floppies from multiple versions - none worked successfully and I would appreciate any hints:
Slitaz2 base: Floppy loads and shows kernel line, when pressing ENTER it starts issuing the register names of the processor plus some RAM addresses. This goes on forever.
I tried changing some of the kernel parameters with no success.
Slitaz3 base: same as Slitaz2
Slitaz4 base: no kernel message. It starts printing "-" signs forever.
From that I switched to Tiny (also with multiple versions) but still no success.
Any ideas??
THANKS MUCH for any help.
