Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 20:12:08 -0300 (GMT-0300)
From: Roberto Alsina <ralsina AT ultra7 DOT unl DOT edu DOT ar>
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
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, 17 May 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> 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.

Well, it boots into a ram disk, and it's not so hot a system, certainly ;-)

But it has network drivers, telnet, ftp and NFS, which is enough to test 
a network a bit or mount /usr over NFS and have a perfectly useful system.

It also has about 100K in the floppy as persistent local storage.

> 
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> Download OpenDOS, then: CDD C:\^DEL /ZS MSDOS.SYS IO.SYS \DOS\*.*
> 


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