SkatOS

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Version: 2.0 - Released: 2007/02/04 - Take a look at the Changelog

For other releases please take a look at our Release Page.

This is a bootable stand alone XSkat card playing system that fits on either one single 1,4MB floppy disk or one eltorito-boot cd.

It features full network client/server support so You can play Skat over LAN with Your friends.

It includes DHCP client support to automagically configure Your network devices.

Requirements

You need at least a 386 machine (fpu not neccessary) with 10 mb ram to run SkatOS.
You need at least a VESA 1.1 (better 2.0) compilant VGA card.
You need a generic keyboard (USB is supported on most systems)
You need a serial od PS/2 mouse (USB is supported on most systems)
Supported network cards are listed below.
The entire system runs in ram, so you can remove the floppy/cd after booting.

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The system runs XSkat 4.0 based on BusyBox 0.60.5, uClibc 0.9.24 and TinyX 4.2.1 with kernel 2.2.26.
It has no support for IDE/ATAPI or SCSI (only ramdisk), so the risk to the computer (data on the hdd)
is VERY low. The System uses BusyBox for providing the background programs and the KDrive-TinyX
server Xvesa as X server. Booting is done via Syslinux.

Supported Hardware:

VGA Text console
VESA 1.1 VGA graphic modes
Ramdisk Support (with initrd)
Serial port (standard / generic)
Mouse (serial or PS/2)
Keyboard support (generic only)
Advanced Power Management BIOS Support
PCI support (ANY PCI access mode)
Network device support
- 3c509/3c579 support
- 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support
- AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500 and NE2100) support
- AMD PCnet32 (VLB and PCI) support
- DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support
- DM9102 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support
- EtherExpress 16 support
- EtherExpressPro/EtherExpress 10 (i82595) support
- EtherExpressPro/100 support
- Generic DECchip & DIGITAL EtherWORKS PCI/EISA
- NE2000/NE1000 support
- PCI NE2000 support
- RealTek 8129/8139 (rtl8139) support
- RealTek 8129/8139 driver (8139too) support with support for 8129
- SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support
- SMC EtherPower II
- TI ThunderLAN support
- Via Rhine support

Included Software:

LINUX-Kernel 2.2.26
devps.patch 9_25_2000
uClibc 0.9.24

BusyBox 0.60.5

[ busybox cat chmod dmesg echo grep halt ifconfig init kill ln ls mknod mount msh poweroff reboot rm route sh sleep test umount

TinyX 4.2.1
XSkat 4.0
menu 2.01-bg-1.1
SkatOSWM 1.0
udhcpc 0.9.8
unlzma

Supported Filesystem: minix.

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Downloads

File	Description
skatos.img	SkatOS Floppy/ELTORITO-BOOT Image
skatosrc.tgz	SkatOS Source/Patch Archive
fdimage.exe	TOOL for writing image files to floppy discs - runs under Dos/Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP
rawrite2.exe	OLD TOOL for writing image files to floppy discs - runs under Dos
rawwrtxp.exe	GRAPHICAL TOOL for writing image files to floppy discs - runs under Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP
loadlin.exe	Loadlin 1.6c (optional)
sha1sums.txt	SHA1SUMs for downloading...

Download problems: "RIGHTCLICK" and "Save link as..."

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Installation

For writing the image to floppy type in the following at the command line:

on Unix/Linux systems: dd if=skatos.img of=/dev/fd0
on DOS/Windows systems: fdimage skatos.img a: or siply use rawwrtxp.exe

For creating the bootable cdrom image type:

on Unix/Linux systems: mkisofs -R -b skatos.img skatos.img > skatos.iso
on DOS/Windows systems: Use a CD buring program like NERO Burning ROM to create the ElTorito-Boot-CD.

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Special-Thanks to...

Linus Torwalds for inventing LINUX and distributing it under the terms of the GPL
Christian Perle for Hal91 and for helping me with my first steps in rescue systems
Erik Andersen and his team for BusyBox and uClibc
Gunter Gerhardt for inventing XSkat and distributing it for free
Keith Packard for writing KDrive - TinyX
Benjamin Bruno for encouraging me to realize this funny idea
Terry Loveall for X.W.O.A.F and for patching menu
Elliott Hughes for writing menu and distributing it under the terms of the GPL
Robert Spering for Small Window Manager

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