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> Re: My BASIC Linux derivative SAMEL
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> Sure would be nice to get a bootable Linux that reliably downloads to,
> and works in, a standard 1.4MB floppy disk.  Sometimes on questionable
> floppy disks (or perhaps their 3.5" drives), fdformat'ing for the
> ~1.7MB req of a tomsrtbt will fail whereas fdformat'ing for the
> standard 1.4MB size will work fine (e.g., for the pair of standard
> Slackware "boot" and "root" disks)
>
> Having such a boot floppy would help recognize the N.I.C.'s and
> display card's chipsets for effective BL3 netsetup and Slackware 4.0
> Xserver installs.
>
> Will SAMEL do this?
>   

Maybe after adding small insmod or modprobe program from here

ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/lart.info/42/module-init-tools-3.1.tar.bz2

and kernel modules from here

http://riksun.riken.go.jp/pub/pub/Linux/slackware/slackware-7.1/modules/2.2.16/net/


Alternatively, I could create bigger initfs.gz and put there busybox 
with insmod enabled.

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I just uploaded new version of SAMEL linux, which boots in 3 megabytes 
even with syslinux, so I removed loadlin and added more programs
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