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Difficulty: What can you fit onto a 1.2MB 5.25" disk? There's a retrobattlestations contest to "boot from a 5.25" floppy disk" coming up this week, so I've bee
by myself248 5y ago
Difficulty: What can you fit onto a 1.2MB 5.25" disk?
There's a retrobattlestations contest to "boot from a 5.25" floppy disk" coming up this week, so I've been down in the basement grabbing disks, and coming up all DOS..
- workallday21 5y agoTowards the end of the article the author mentions: Full size: 1440KiB / 1.44MiB Kernel size: 632KiB Tools: 552KiB Free space left (du -h): 272KiB So... it does look to me like the kernel and tools would fit 1.2MB too.
- w84death 5y agoBarely. If you want to just run some compiled C app then you don't need as much tools. You can even skip the BusyBox part and instead of shell running your application only. But I don't think it is what you want. For sane set of tools it was a little bit over 1MB. Mine is bigger as I still need more tools for fixing/experimenting on live system (I'm using shell scripts for my application). In the end I will be removing more and more tools.