UDPcast boot media images

The following images are available for download:

ISO9660 bootable CD image comprising bootloader and udpcast root disk [ instructions ]
Boot disk image (floppy) for starting udpcast [ instructions ]
Boot disk image (XDF floppy) for starting udpcast [ instructions ]
Tar file with additional modules (to be used in addition to boot disk above, in case needed module is not on disk) [Notes]
More boot images (PXE, Etherboot, ...) and info...

Writing the UDPcast images to disk

CD-Rom

Make CD as follows:

cdrecord speed=4 dev=0,0,0 udpcd.iso

Substitute speed and device id as appropriate.

Floppy

udpcast comes with a disk images and a tar file. The disk image is the boot disk used to boot the kernel, the menu system (based on busybox) as well as network modules (drivers) for the most frequently used Ethernet cards.

The net-mod.tar.gz file is an archive of those driver modules that didn't fit on the first disk; it can be loaded by the menu system whenever a module is requested that is not on the first disk.

In order to make the boot disk, just download the image, and cat it to /dev/fd0.

cat udpflop.img >/dev/fd0

The additional modules tar file (if needed) should be mcopied to an already mformatted disk:

change disks
mformat a:
mcopy net-mod.tar.gz a:

Adding extra modules to the floppy

If your computers have a network card which is not supported by the first boot floppy, just store the net-mod.tar.gz file on a second disk:

mformat a:
mcopy net-mod.tar.gz a:

If the needed modules are not in that second disk either, you may need to compile your own kernel, and then use makeImage to make a floppy (or CD, or net...) image containing your choice of modules.