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by **Erik Ryber** » Wed, 28 Apr 1999 04:00:00

Hello,

I have been unsuccessful in my search for linux on 3" floppy. Several
web sites advertise that it is easily available but I have not found
this to be so. Can anyone point me to a source? I cannot download to
my computer and it has no cd drive.

Thanks.
Erik Ryberg

by **Nick Brow » Thu, 29 Apr 1999 04:00:00

I don't know of any floppy distributions for retail sale. It would need
hundreds of disks.

You can get various mini-Linuxes like mulinux, tomsrtbt, etc (check
AltaVista), but you have
to download them too, and they are not exactly full-featured.

A second-hand quad-speed IDE CD drive is about $30 these days. Try your
local PC dealer,
or even stores like Cash Convertors.

> I have been unsuccessful in my search for linux on 3" floppy. Several
> web sites advertise that it is easily available but I have not found
> this to be so. Can anyone point me to a source? I cannot download to
> my computer and it has no cd drive.

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by **John Ridl** » Thu, 29 Apr 1999 04:00:00

I know you said you can't download, but here is how to get a
distribution on floppy if you can get to someone's machine that can,
and this demonstrates that a modern linux install can be put on
floppies.

Go to ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware
Go to the bootdsks.144 directory - read which.one to see which root
disk you need. Download that and rawrite.exe. make your boot disk.
Go to the rootdsks directory. Download color.gz and make your root
disk with that.
Now go to the slakware directory and download the packages you want.
For instance, if you want the Networking package (set N) (and you do)
download the files from directories n1,n2,n3...n9 and copy the files
from each directory to a floppy.
There you go. A full install with everything will take about 34
disks. This doesn't include source (except probably kernel source, I
don't know)

I've done this in the past. It hurts, but it does work.

Quote:>Hello,

>I have been unsuccessful in my search for linux on 3" floppy. Several
>web sites advertise that it is easily available but I have not found
>this to be so. Can anyone point me to a source? I cannot download to
>my computer and it has no cd drive.

>Thanks.
>Erik Ryberg

by **Alan Gaul** » Thu, 29 Apr 1999 04:00:00

> I have been unsuccessful in my search for linux on 3" floppy.

3" floppy? Surely not! 180K or 720K max capacity...
There must be a way of fitting a 1.4M 3.5" disk drive?

Assuming you can get a 3.5" drive then there are at least 2
minimal Lunux distributions on 5 or 6 floppies.

There used to be a (Spanish?) one (minilin?)
that was on 6 floppies including Xfree86...
most of these are UMSDOS installs tho'...

Minilin came on my first set of Infomagic Linux CDs
from Walnut Creek in 1995.... Don't know if they still
package it on their 6(8?) CD set.

Alan G.

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by **Tom Fawcet** » Thu, 29 Apr 1999 04:00:00

> I have been unsuccessful in my search for linux on 3" floppy. Several
> web sites advertise that it is easily available but I have not found
> this to be so. Can anyone point me to a source? I cannot download to
> my computer and it has no cd drive.

There are quite a few, though they're often called bootdisks or rescue disks.
Check this directory:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/recovery/!INDEX.html

The directory is poorly named, unfortunately.

-Tom

by **Erica Vogl** » Mon, 03 May 1999 04:00:00

Check out the Linux Router Project, www.linuxrouter.org. Their
distribution is geared towards lan/wan routing, but there are .lrp
packages available which provide dhcp, dns, http, etc. And, all fits on
one 3.5" floppy.

As a plug, they make great routers too :)

> Hello,

> I have been unsuccessful in my search for linux on 3" floppy. Several
> web sites advertise that it is easily available but I have not found
> this to be so. Can anyone point me to a source? I cannot download to
> my computer and it has no cd drive.

> Thanks.
> Erik Ryberg

by **Timothy Dix** » Tue, 04 May 1999 04:00:00

Quote:>Hello,

>I have been unsuccessful in my search for linux on 3" floppy. Several
>web sites advertise that it is easily available but I have not found
>this to be so. Can anyone point me to a source? I cannot download to
>my computer and it has no cd drive.

>Thanks.
>Erik Ryberg

Debian can be installed from floppies.
www.debian.org

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