This is a Red Hat 9 image for testing purposes.  Busybox should build
under this, and it's an easy way to test against a 2.4 kernel.  This is
the oldest Linux build/deployment environment we're still testing against.

To use this, download it, decompress it (it's 2 gigabytes uncompressed), and
run qemu (from http://www.qemu.org) ala:

  qemu rh-9-shrike.img

There are two users: root (password "busybox") and busybox (password "busybox").
You should be able to access the network as if you're behind a masquerading
firewall.  For example, try:
	wget http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-snapshot.tar.bz2

Another way to get data into/out of it is to create a loopback image of
a normal filesystem and mount it as a second hard drive, ala:

	dd if=/dev/zero of=image.img bs=1M count=100
	mke2fs image.img
	mkdir sub
	[as root:] mount -o loop image.img sub
	cp stuff sub
	umount sub
	qemu -hda rh-9-shrike.img -hdb image.img
		[After logging in:]
		mkdir sub
		[as root:] mount /dev/hdb sub

(Don't mount the image from both the parent system and qemu at the same time,
they'll fight.)

This install boots to text mode, but has X and KDE installed, if you like.
(Type "startx", it's currently configured for 800x600).

This is a partitioned image (data and swap).  Run fdisk on it if you're curious.

The install and source CDs for older versions of Red Hat are online at:
ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux  (See GPLv2 clause 3(c).)

  - Rob Landley