Linux single Floppy

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:09:37 -0600, Douglas Mayne staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Don't bother. There's no point in doing this for a system that's intended for actual use. If you want to learn about the process of building a rootboot floppy, go right ahead, but it's just a very long run for a very short slide when there are things like Tom's RootBoot available. That and almost every x86 will boot from CD now, which gives you a lot more space to fit useful utilities in.

Tom's requires a 1.7M (82 tracks, 21 sectors-track) floppy at the very least. Making such a floppy is AFAICT impossible with a USB floppy drive and a Linux kernel, so hope you have a 34-pin floppy drive.

Floppies are practically obsolete now that CD-RWs are ubiquitous and many x86s can boot from USB devices. There's little point to using something that imposes so many limitations on available space, unless you have some retro technology fetish.

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