Ars Technica

2 Floppy Boot from USB Floppy Drive? How??

I am using Linux 2.4 & Lilo and trying to make a 2 floppy boot system work on a USB floppy drive.<BR><BR>On a machine with a normal floppy drive (/dev/fd0) it works fine. The kernel boots, then asks ...
Hackaday

Linux On A Floppy: Still (Just About) Possible

Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering ...
Ars Technica

Installing Linux from a floppy?

I'm looking for some pointers as to how to go about this. I have an older pentium 120 laptop, just 32 megs of ram. It has no CD-ROM drive and no OS at all on it right now. <P>I basically need to boot ...
Linux Journal

Building Tiny Linux Systems with Busybox, Part 2: Building the Kernel

For this example I use Linux kernel version 2.2.17. The 2.4.0-test8 kernel that I tried did not size the RAM disk for the root file system properly, leading to a ``not enough memory'' message at boot ...