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Ahh, Sigh, The days when you could fit your entire OS on 1 floppy.
</nostalgia>Never has a man been heard to say on his death bed that he wishes he'd spent more time in the office. -
Originally posted by Scrag Meister View Post<nostalgia>
Ahh, Sigh, The days when you could fit your entire OS on 1 floppy.
</nostalgia>Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
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Think I did about 10 before I spent the time to work out the minimum number of files needed to get the thing to boot and on the network from where I could load the rest, and got it down to about 6 floppies. One of my first forays into 'development' - RAMBO (R___ Automated MicroVax Backup Operation) was born!Comment
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostI bet some smart alec has done a linux distro that runs off a floppy using some wacky compression algorithm thingy. If not it needs to be done.Comment
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The closest to a whole OS on a disk these days is probably damn small linux DSL information it's really not bad for a sub 50mb imageComment
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostI bet some smart alec has done a linux distro that runs off a floppy using some wacky compression algorithm thingy. If not it needs to be done.
These days you'd probably use a compressed disk image and unzip it to a ramdisk.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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