Replying to my own follow-up: 1. Apologies for the nasty formatting. It was a cut & paste of a previously-sent message.
2. The comments about LNX-BBC as a possible bootable CD solution still stand. Another possibility -- one suitable for a "surv-gateway" running on a newer system to allow older systems to connect -- would be Knoppix. Knoppix itself is a bit of a pig, but it's an easily customizable bootable CD Linux distribution that is quite "featureful." 3. My long-term interest in this effort is in developing the "gateway" model, where a Linux machine running on "more modern" hardware (a PII perhaps) allows older DOS and pre-DOS systems to connect, as opposed to a "do it all" box running DOS apps under DOSemu. While the latter works, it does nothing to preserve the old hardware, which is MY particular interest. I'd love to get my old Apple //e, Mac SE and others doing "something" on the Internet, if only terminal emulation to a Linux box. 4. I lost interest in Mandrake, so don't have it handy for testing anymore. Sorry, but I find apt-get SO much easier to use for system maintenance that I hate using anything else. Unfortunately, I had to wipe the drive I was using for testing, and I'm travelling extensively for work, so won't be able to get back to all this in the short-term future. However, if anybody's got "will this work?" questions, I can try to check it out for them... eventually. - Bob
