Dne Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:33:49 +0000, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal:

> Mark LaPierre wrote:

>> That third floppy would be hard to mount with only two drives.

> We'd probably be taking compressed data from the floppies and
> unzipping it to a large ramdisk, so a third floppy would be no
> problem.

I see ... I was thinking rather about some weird distribution for 
ancient two-floppy systems ;)

> I've used this approach with my own mini-distro (BasicLinux),
> which is 2meg (compressed) and runs happily in a 4meg ramdisk.
> It boots from a DOS directory on a harddrive or from two floppies.
> No problem.

Nice...

> BTW I would love to put Arachne into BasicLinux, but Arachne
> doesn't run on libc5.  I've currently got the Links browser
> (300meg) in it, and it dials and browses quite happily -- but
> it's not as good as Arachne.

Yes, we have to compile libc5 version of Arachne.... 
BTW, I checked you page, and its nice that you recommend Arachne,
except that it is in not-so early stages of development. DOS version
is already stable (well... more or less stable ;-), and what is missing
in Linux version doesn't have to be reimplemented, but rather ported
from DOS to Linux, which is maybe easier...

nee
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