[Q] Creating custom boot disk, ISA PnP NIC

[Donovan J. Edye]

G'Day,

I have a box with the following configuration:

CPU: Pentium 166 (Acer Box)
Memory: 8MB (I can add more as required)
Floppy Disk Drive
No Hard Drive
NIC: Vanilla NE2000 ISA 10mbs card

What I want to do is build a boot floppy that will boot the machine with a
static IP address (with TCP/IP support) and create a RAM disk for storage. I
have tried this using DOS and have had difficulty getting the NIC going (I
can get it configured using isapnp for DOS and although M$ TCP/IP 1.0 for
DOS sees the card but I cannot ping other hosts on my network). I have also
had a look a the LRP & Leaf but LRP is old and not being maintained anymore
and LEAF is too complex for my needs. Can someone please help me out with
how I create a boot disk (or even create one for me ;-))

I want the following:

Kernel: 2.24
Support for: TCP/IP
RAM Drive
Apps: ping, telenet daemon

To get the NIC going I believe I would have to use the isapnp package
(http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/isapnptools.html) to configure the
card with IRQ 10, Base IO 0x300  (Those resources appear to available under
DOS at least). ISAPnP reports the following information under DOS:

ISA AXE2201
PnP ID: 80D6
Description: ISQ PnP Ethernet Card

So based on that I believe I need the ne.o module.

TIA for any help, pointers etc.

-- Donovan
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