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It would be nice to include a small program to stop the hard drive,
something like DiskOff for DOS.



On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:17:59 +0200
> From: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [BL] My BASIC Linux derivative SAMEL
>
> 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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Ing. Alejandro Lieber
Rosario     Argentina
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