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    Just been introduced to this site
    Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

    #2
    <nostalgia>

    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.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Scrag Meister View Post
      <nostalgia>

      Ahh, Sigh, The days when you could fit your entire OS on 1 floppy.

      </nostalgia>
      I 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.
      Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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        #4
        Originally posted by suityou01 View Post


        Just been introduced to this site
        You might laugh. Early in my career I was tasked with upgrading the site's 49 MicroVaxes. Each upgrade required 47 floppy disks.

        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!

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          #5
          Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
          I 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.
          Yes there are/were plenty like that. tomsrtbt used to be a favourite. Not too wacky as the kernel is stored in a compressed format anyway so it's mainly a case of limiting the installed apps/tools/drivers etc to a bare minimum. Although not quite the same thing, SystemRescueCd is a modern variant that I have found useful to keep at hand, on an old 256MB USB stick.

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            #6
            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 image

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              #7
              Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
              I 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.
              You can certainly get a basic command line system on a floppy. In the olden days a distro came with various boot disk images (containing kernel, shell, basic utilities etc) and you picked one most likely to work on your hardware and put it on a floppy and booted it. This actually ran off the floppy disk as there generally wasn't enough ram for a ramdisk. The kernel image is still called zimage or vmlinuz cos its compressed.

              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.'

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