Nuclinux Installation, step by step. 1) First: Log in as root, (using su-command) unpack .tar.bz2 -packet using piped command: # bunzip2 -c file.tar.bz2 | tar xv or if your tar supports -I flag, then # tar xvfI file.tar.bz2 , where file is the name of this distribution package. Then cd to nuclinux -directory 2) Common configuration: Check 1/data/profile and modify anything you want. 3) Keyboard configuration (needed only if you use non-english keyboard): Move your keyboard table from alternatives/keytable to 2/usr/lib/kbd/keytables and there make a symbolic link from it to default.map. Remove unnecessary keytables. (creating symlinks syntax is "ln -s source target") 4) Networking configuration: Add all your network (usually only IP address) settings into 1/data/netcfg directory taking example from samples (that are included in 2/usr/lib/netcfg -directory) (after you have collected them), and defaults (especially if you use your floppy only in one network) into 1/data/netcfg/netdefaults Then, when have booted to nuclinux, you just have to type 'net ' and you'll be connected to the net. If you DON'T specify -parameter, the net script will query you them. If your network card is not supported in Nuclinux, you can quite easily recompile kernel using .config, which is included in toplevel directory (nuclinux-kernelconfig-DATE). 4) Before building (ability to use (old&small) libc5-progs in _your_ system): Skip this step if you have libc.so.5 and ld-linux.so.1 installed in /lib If you don't, this is how you can easily install them: # cp 2/lib/ld-linux.so.1 2/lib/libc.so.5 /lib # ldconfig This is necessary for buildit-script to be able to run programs in buildtimebin/ 5) Building Nuclinux To build Nuclinux, type (as root): ./buildit 6) Creating 1722k floppy drive device node in /dev If you don't already have that, then create it, by typing # mknod /dev/fd0H1722 b 2 60 If you had, but you face problems with writing a floppy, try removing it and creating again. 7) Formatting and writing a bootable Nuclinux floppy Type # sh ./mkfloppy If you don't want to format disk with fdformat, give '-n' as a parameter. 8) Finally: Just boot and test it. Log in as root, your initial password is nuc. ********************************************* You may then change password in fly (with passwd -command), it will be saved to floppy (/floppy/data/passwd).