[ale] linux old timers question (late 1990s)

[Greg Freemyer]

All,

I have an old 80 MB disk I need to figure out/review.  Appears to be
from the late 1990s.

I've used dd to make a copy of it.

It does not seem to have a traditional partition table and running
file against it tells me:

dd-image: Linux/x86 Kernel, Setup Version 0x201, zImage, RO-rootFS,
root_dev 0xFF, Normal VGA

Which is very close to what I get if I run file against a current
kernel in /boot.

So it looks like the the first portion of this 80 MB disk is a linux
kernel.  Running strings against it I see:

>>
4rz6
C9m{
8;R~
gP~IA~q
olh~
t0DO
~c-f9
4*{&j
ca)m
]ZF*
sY>L
E]xb
RQSP
Loading
$HdrS
ZZuC
 PQ0
No setup signature found ...
Wrong loader, giving up...
2.0.29 (source at alyshia) #51 Mon Apr 7 02:49:06 PDT 1997
INT15 refuses to access high mem, giving up...
<<

Which makes me think that this is a 2.0.29 kernel from 1997.  (I don't
know if those dates are consistent or not.)

Can anyone tell me how I can find a filesystem on this image?  ie.
What is the offset to the start of any and all filesystems.

I assume if I knew the offset I could do a mount -o loop  to mount it
and take a look around at the filesystem.

Thanks
Greg
-- 
Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century