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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)

The first disk of BL3 can be used standalone (without X or modules).  Hit 
control-C instead of putting in disk 2.

> 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

Statically linked against dietlibc.  Back up one directory.  vim, pcmcia, 
kbd, gzip, coreutils, binutils....

What are the relative merits of uclibc (later versions require kernel 
2.4+) and dietlibc?

Are there sites with other assembly-language linux programs than what is 
in asmutils?  Did you include e3pi as editor?

Do you know how to port DOS nasm programs with hardware calls to linux?
My partner wrote a 4K editor that works under dosemu and does a lot.

> and kernel modules from here
>
> http://riksun.riken.go.jp/pub/pub/Linux/slackware/slackware-7.1/modules/2.2.16/net/

For BL3 kernel you need Stephen's 2.2.26 modules not SW71 2.2.16.

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

Sounds great!  We have had a few failing computers that would boot with 
syslinux but not loadlin sometimes.

Sindi