Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy

Re:Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy by myself248 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:43PM (#27252257)

Difficulty: What can you fit onto a 1.2MB 5.25" disk?

There's a retrobattlestations contest to "boot from a 5.25" floppy disk" coming up this week, so I've been down in the basement grabbing disks, and coming up all DOS..

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Re:Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy by workallday21 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @02:20AM (#27252835)

Towards the end of the article the author mentions:

Full size: 1440KiB / 1.44MiB Kernel size: 632KiB Tools: 552KiB Free space left (du -h): 272KiB

So... it does look to me like the kernel and tools would fit 1.2MB too.

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Re:Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy by w84death on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:42AM (#27253374)

Barely. If you want to just run some compiled C app then you don't need as much tools. You can even skip the BusyBox part and instead of shell running your application only.

But I don't think it is what you want. For sane set of tools it was a little bit over 1MB. Mine is bigger as I still need more tools for fixing/experimenting on live system (I'm using shell scripts for my application). In the end I will be removing more and more tools.

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