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> > Will it work from a 720K floppy disk?
>
> Probabbly yes, everything currently takes 675840 bytes
> > Why both loadlin and syslinux?
> Because, when tested on QEMU I remarked that booted floppy with syslinux
> can requires 4 megabytes, and started from loadlin requires 3 megabytes.
> But, you can not loadlin without having DOS installed on floppy.

So if you add DOS to the floppy disk it will run in less RAM?  Will your 
download contain both syslinux and loadlin, and we remove one or the other 
depending how we use it?

BL3 works in 3MB RAM but only if run from hard disk.  You can hit Ctrl-C 
instead of loading the second disk (you lose X and modules, I think).
How much of the 3MB is left after booting your disk, to run programs in?

David Moberg put together a 1-floppy BL-based linux with kernel 2.4.31 and 
usb-storage and mouse driver, useful for copying files from a usb-storage 
digital camera and viewing with zgv.  I forget how much RAM it needs.  I 
put a small BL3 onto it and can boot with floppy then chroot to it to view 
and edit images.  Would a larger kernel also fit into your SAMEL?

> If nothing else, to say: My computer from trash bin can use Linux.
> However, there are 800 kilobytes space to add yet some commands. It
> might become rescue floppy or you can convert your computer to telnet
> terminal, or installer of hard disk based Linux ....

With telnetd.  Will it have e2fsck (not in my asmutils), mke2fs?
You could probably shrink the BL3 kernel some more.

> BTW, See how I lived without hard disk and still developed software
> http://www.worldofspectrum.org/warajevo/Story.html

Interesting story.  What is a Spectrum?  I STILL use linux with TTL and/or 
mono VGA, and 360K floppy drive.

> >   Sindi
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Because floppy based Linux distributions require more RAM than hard disk
> > > based, I just prepared special floppy distribution intended for
> > > computers with minimal RAM (3 megabytes) but without hard disk. I gave
> > > it backronim SAMEL, (also the name of my two months old son) meaning:
> > > Small And Memory Economic Linux.
> > >
> > > The floppy contains
> > > - Kernel from BASIC Linux
> > > - initfs.gz modified to point to the floppy
> > > - all asmutils programs
> > > - syslinux loader
> > > - loadlin loader from DOS
> > > - 800 kilobytes free space
> > >
> > > It is on 1.44 floppy disk and uses only initial RAM disk. The image file
> > > for testing will be soon availabel on my BASIC Linux addons site.
> > >
> > > Samir
> > >
> > >
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