Posted: 11/16/2004 1:37:14 PM EDT
| I remember seeing a Linux Floppy Disk os. Does anyone know what I am talking about? Any links? |
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SLAX is a small bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. It runs Linux directly from the CD without installing. The Live CD described here is based on the Slackware Linux distribution and is downloadable from this website as an ISO image. All scripts and source code are available and can be used to build your own Live CD. It's cool be cause you can recover files from an windows XP/2000/NT in case the os gets corupt. http://slax.linux-live.org/ |
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read the website Floppy Images Since I generally only release the big tarball image mentioned above, your best bet is to get one of the 1.4MB boot floppy images. You will need to get rawrite (a DOS program) or better yet Rawrite for Windows which is also available here if the original link is down. On UNIX systems, you can use the dd command to do a low-level image copy. Be sure to check the size of the file that you downloaded. It should be 1474560 bytes. Netscape users have encountered problems, so you may want to use another browser to download the disk images. NOTE: You cannot use the standard Windows copy command to copy the disk image to a floppy. As of version 0.80, there are three possible boot images to choose from: * Network - contains a stripped down kernel with support for common Ethernet NiCs, but no integrated support for IDE devices or filesystems (except for FAT and minix). * PCMCIA - contains the smallest kernel (no built-in ISA/PCI NIC support) and PCMCIA kernel-module packages for 3Com, Xircom, and a few more PCMCIA NICs. Other PCMCIA modules are available. Best for network package loading. See pcmcia-cs project for a list of supported cards * IDE - nearly identical to the standard image except that the kernel has support for IDE hard drives and CD-ROMs and FAT, NTFS (read only), and minix filesystems. NEXT: Select Packages |
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