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["Krzysztof A. Suchecki" <christopher.suchecki AT wp.pl>]

qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
 
> I'm not surprised.  The libraries/binaries in Slack39
> are somewhat larger than those in Slack35.  Nevertheless, 
> 410kb is not too bad -- that's about the same as BL2.

Nearly each library/binary adds a few bytes.
BTW Imagine that in SLack 3.9 init from sysvinit is 
nearly 190kb in comparison with 30kb from Slack 3.5 - 
but I used this from BL 1.8 :)

> You may also be able to reduced the size of the gzip 
> by zero-ing bytes before creating the filesystem:
> ---------------------------------------------
> dd if=/dev/zero of=baslinux bs=1k count=4096
> mk2efs -i8192 -m0 baslinux 4096
> ---------------------------------------------

exactly the same - loop is sth I missed the most in
Win*s world.

> > so you have to use 2m to fit it on a floppy :(
> 
> Yes, it looks like it will be too big to fit on a
> normal floppy (unless you remove something).  Perhaps
> we should be thinking about an ISO (rather than a
> floppy version)?

Go and find _bootable_ cd-rom in old PCs :)
OK, there were talks in FreeDOS developers list
about boot manager letting booting from CD-ROM
on old PC - but it has to be installed into MBR.

  
Chris


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