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This used to be the best way to try Linux before live CDs became a thing. The first Linux distro I ever used (DragonLinux) was 'installed' by unzipping an 8mb z

This used to be the best way to try Linux before live CDs became a thing. The first Linux distro I ever used (DragonLinux) was 'installed' by unzipping an 8mb zip file and running a BAT file. You could 'uninstall' it by deleting the directory it created next time you booted into DOS.

UncleSlacky 6y ago
Slackware had "ZipSlack" which would fit on a 100Mb Zip disk, or could be installed (read: copied) into a DOS directory and run from there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZipSlack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZipSlack