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  • Subject: Re: [BL] My BASIC Linux derivative SAMEL
  • Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:50:27 +0200

baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
Re: My BASIC Linux derivative SAMEL

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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