Try the root on the resc1440.bin floppy . It contains a functional Unix tool set, a good shell, and an editor. It fits on a 1.44MB ramdisk image, compresses down to 700KB on the floppy, leaves enough room for the kernel on the same 1.44MB floppy, and supports shared libraries. You would be hard pressed to improve on its size.
If you study the script that builds it in the boot-floppies package, you'll learn the dirty tricks necessary to get a system in a space that small. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .