Amazing root-boot achievement

Post #123,562 by deSitter 10/31/03 10:45:13 AM Reply	Amazing root-boot achievement Check out tomsrtbt here: [link\|http://www.toms.net/rb/\|http://www.toms.net/rb/] Boot and root on a 1.7 floppy (yes 1.7), many tools, full network. Amazing. Send him a nice email. Linux-d00d he is. -drl
Post #123,577 by SpiceWare 10/31/03 1:49:46 PM Reply	1722 - almost as good as the Amiga [link\|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk\|Floppy disk] The Commodore Amiga computers used other kinds of floppy disk optimizations for extra storage. One was to not use sectors, and instead write an entire track as a single object with no stop or start information which normally takes up some 10% of the disk. They combined this with a variable sector format similar to the Mac, but without the complexity of the variable-speed drive (in retrospect, one wonders why Apple developed this solution at all). These changes add up to allowing considerably better storage capacity of about 880KB on a DD floppy, and 1.76MB on HD. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #123,603 by kmself 10/31/03 9:20:45 PM Reply	Loooonnnggg time fave tool. You'll find it mentioned in my [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall\|Debian Chroot Install] instructions. I was first pointed at it by Heather Stern (part of [link\|http://www.linuxgazett.net/\|Linux Gazette]'s Answer Gang, back ~1998 or so. It's saved my ass several times (so blame Tom for me still being here). \r\n\r\n [link\|http://www.lnx-bbc.org/\|LNX-BBC] is more tools (including an X environment) on a business-card form-factor CD. Very useful in its place -- has more capabilities than TRB but ties up the (or an) CD drive. Nice bit is that it usually fits into a PDA case making it handy to tote. And of course [link\|http://www.knoppix.org/\|Knoppix] is there when you can carry a full-sized CDROM. \r\n\r\n There are scads of micro-Linuxes as well, including Trinux, mu-Linux, and others. [link\|http://lwn.net/Distributions/index.php3#floppy\|LWN has a good list of floppy distros] (CDs follow). All told, 358 listed distributions. --\r\n Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
Post #123,607 by Ashton 10/31/03 10:12:42 PM Reply	LNX-BBC I used your small-gifty just t'other day re an acquaintance's Doze Won't Start problem (into which I did not wish to go). Impressive when that tiny biz-card thingie Boots! the sucker and IDs all that detritus and, effectively sez tacitly - - "Lady, yer Doze is flummoxed; it ain't the box" (and BTW "yer CD reader ain't bad, either") .. and that's a pretty old copy, yet. Thanx again!

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