Index of /Book386/
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| BASLIN.zip | 2026-Sep-23 21:20:59 | 25.4M | application/zip |
| README.txt | 2026-Sep-23 21:47:15 | 2.3K | text/plain; charset=utf-8 |
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Getting Linux on your Book386 up and running
HOWTO:
- Download https://astr0baby.online/Book386/BASLIN.zip
- Extract and put on FAT16 formatted USB stick to copy over to the Book386 DOS
- C:\baslin (this has to be exactly like this)
the file structure is as follows :
-rwx------ 1 user staff 54 Sep 23 23:15 BOOT.BAT
-rwx------ 1 user staff 83886080 Sep 23 23:15 FS.IMG
-rwx------ 1 user staff 43821 Sep 23 23:15 INITFS.GZ
-rwx------ 1 user staff 32225 Sep 23 23:14 LOADLIN.EXE
-rwx------ 1 user staff 2466 Sep 23 23:15 README.TXT
-rwx------ 1 user staff 56 Sep 23 23:15 SINGLE.BAT
-rwx------ 1 user staff 6881280 Sep 23 23:14 SWAP.IMG
-rwx------ 1 user staff 458327 Sep 23 23:14 ZIMAGE
- Boot (will load BasicLinux directly from DOS session)
C:\BASLIN\BOOT.BAT
- If you want to boot single user mode
C:\BASLIN\SINGLE.BAT
- There are no passwords (log in as root or user)
- There is no incoming daemons configured (no X11 or telnet)
- SSHd as a server is an overkill (dont try this on 16 MB RAM ;))
- The Linux image in total takes 80MB (50 MB used)
- X11 and network is preconfigured and works out of the box on the Book386
- Network is static only ! I have hardcoded values in /etc/rc
###_ACTIVATE ETHERNET_###
ifconfig eth0 10.0.2.101 up
route add default gw 10.0.2.2
- Change to your environment (DHCP does not work)
- Tools installed
- Links 2.30 (with SSL support)
- OpenSSL 1.0.2u
- OpenSSH 3.8p1 (old, will try to build something more recent)
- Nmap 3.55
- curl 7.29.0
- zlib 1.2.3.9
- telnet
- wget
- ftp
*Yes you can nmap network and use Links with SSL on modern internet, just bear in mind that it is not fast
Hey we are on a 386 SX with 16 Megs of RAM remember ?
You can SSH in to older systems, but newer ones need more modern crypto (I need to patch newer SSH versions to get it to
work on the 386)
Happy Hacking on the Book386
Reference:
Book386
https://www.tindie.com/products/cycle/book386-retro-dos-computer-386sx-40mhz/
BasicLinux
https://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/