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Kudos to the creator! Fitting a bootable Linux on a single floppy was already doable some 20 years ago, my firewall back then was in fact floppyfw (0) running o
by squarefoot 5y ago
Kudos to the creator! Fitting a bootable Linux on a single floppy was already doable some 20 years ago, my firewall back then was in fact floppyfw (0) running on a 486 board, but in the meantime the kernel grew a lot, despite being much more modular than old ones. Userland utilities and libraries also grew in size, so the accomplishment is not trivial. Thumbs up!
0: https://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/ https://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
- bombcar 5y agoI saw this and said “eh, been done” - but that it’s the latest kernel and busybox is surprising. This could be useful for other embedded systems - as 2MB of storage could be fit into ROM pretty easily.
- w84death 5y agoYeah, I just wanted to learn Linux. It worked as I learned a lot doing this project :)