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I sometimes like to boot up my old 386 into MS-DOS from a 3.5" floppy... I haven't done much research into it but I used to have a disk with linux on it that wo
by c12 9y ago
I sometimes like to boot up my old 386 into MS-DOS from a 3.5" floppy... I haven't done much research into it but I used to have a disk with linux on it that would boot fine.
Can't seem to find anything today that would fit on one, but then again I haven't done much more than a cursory dig.
- EvanAnderson 9y agoThe Linux Router Project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project) did that kind of thing in the late 90's and early 2000's. It's long-since dead, however. I doubt there's much of anything today, given the size of the kernel alone. I built a Linux floppy-based bootable disk imaging environment to roll out masses of Windows 95/98 machines back in 1997-1999. You'd compile a minimal kernel down to 600 - 800 KB then pack-up your userland in an itty-bitty gzipped filesystem archive and concatenate it with the kernel at an even sector boundary, dd the whole thing to a disk, and set some bits to tell the kernel where to load the initrd. I've never gone back to see how much of that functionality still exits in modern kernels. (Very little, I'd assume...)
- pjmlp 9y agoI used to have one 1.44MB with MS-DOS 3.3 trimmed to the minimum and Turbo Pascal.