Date:	Sat, 17 May 1997 09:07:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To:	"Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To:	Roberto Alsina <ralsina AT ultra7 DOT unl DOT edu DOT ar>
cc:	John Fremlin <dfremlin AT facstaff DOT wisc DOT edu>, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: A few FS notions
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On Sat, 10 May 1997, Roberto Alsina wrote:

> > Where? Where? Gimme! Wonder of wonders! (Reading the Slackware FAQ
> > it appears that one disk is only useful for "maintenance and
> > installation", oh well).
> 
> There is a Linux-in-one-floppy distribution. It's called DLX, IIRC, but I 
> lost the URL. It was announced in c.o.l.a, so it should be easy to find.
> Has everything, from network to vi, but you need 8 MB to run it.

I can hardly see a 1.4M floppy containing a useful Linux
distribution, unless it boots the floppy into a RAMdisk and then
mounts a cdrom as a live filesystem.  Even then, you'd need user
filespace even if you were the only user.

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