I'm trying to read an old umsdos filesystem, which went out of support with the 2.6 kernels and have my old Slackware 3.2 disks. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear as though vmware's virtual disks are recognized by the boot kernels (2.0.series).

I can read the files as vfat, but want the pseudo-root extensions to get the correct linux filenames.

I could probably download slackware 10.2, which I think was the last one with kernel 2.4 but it'd take forever.

Any suggestions? Anyone succeed at loading up 3.2 in a VM? Haven't tried Vbox yet...

3.2 is far too old unless you have an antique

Have you tried tomsrtbt or damnsmalllinux? Tomsrtbt is 2.0 or 2.2

No, haven't tried those yet; I'm trying to avoid a lot of downloading, slow connection speeds and all that.

I haven't tried it with VirtualBox, but I had 3.5 running with qemu a while ago.

Well I got zipslack 9.0 running and it mounts umsdos, so I guess the problem is partially solved.