Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

[Jim M. <jmi...@ya...>]

you mean like this?
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
https://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/livecd/systemrescuecd/lcd_0x.html




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> From: Bernd Blaauw <bb...@ho...>
>To: fre...@li... 
>Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 12:26 PM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.
> 
>Op 2-5-2012 20:41, kurt godel schreef:
>> Now that you mention it, I have been toying with the idea of a "linux
>> startup disk" that would be comparable in size to a '98 startup disk';
>> problem is, I am too dumb to figure out how to take a
>> vmlinuz and boot it up. I assume the vmlinuz has a minimal number of
>> built in functions like the proverbial dos kernel. I am not fanatical
>> about having it fit on a floppy, though a 2.88 image
>> would allow emulation mode iso, etc.
>
>http://lennartb.home.xs4all.nl/linux.html
>
>has plenty of pointers for creating your own minimalist Linux bootdisk.
>Personally, I'm still looking for a minimalistic Linux distro that 
>contains GCC. Somewhere around 500MB to 1GB maximum.
>
>>    So, nuts and bolts: if I download the latest vmlinuz, how do I boot
>> it? I mean that in a comparable sense to booting a dos
>> kernel.Richard<wb...@gm... <mailto:wb...@gm...>>.
>
>If you have a recently modern machine that allows booting from USB, get 
>a cheap USB flash drive and install Linux to it. A tool like RUFUS can 
>help you if you happen to run Windows. I don't think a real rescue disk 
>for Linux exists, likely considered a security risk.
>
>Bernd
>
>PS: http://lennartb.home.xs4all.nl/coreboot/coreboot.html for more fun, 
>especially on a tiny 80486 board like [ http://bifferos.co.uk/ ]
>
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