Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

2012-06-24 Thread Rugxulo
>> From: Bernd Blaauw >> To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 12:26 PM >> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux. >> >> PS: http://lennartb.home.xs4all.nl/coreboot/coreboot.html for more fun, >> especially on a tiny

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

2012-06-24 Thread Jim Michaels
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux. > >Op 2-5-2012 20:41, kurt godel schreef: >> Now that you mention it, I have been toying with the idea of a "linux >> startup disk" that would be comparable in size to a '98 startup disk'; >> problem is, I am

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

2012-05-03 Thread bolle
Hello I had lately experimented with Tiny Core Linux. I've installed DOSEMU compiled on my Ubuntu station (only "dosemu.bin" and "libplugin_X.so") onto it and a FreeDOS based installation and it worked fine, as far I have tested. If you use Xorg instead of Xvesa, then it will support graphics

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

2012-05-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On May 2, 2012 5:43 PM, "Eric Auer" wrote: > > > Hi Rugxulo, > > > Almost definitely doesn't fit on floppy anymore, not since 2.2.0 or > > such. Even 2.4.x branch is basically (officially?) dead now. > > Yes a modern Linux kernel and initrd (boot time ramdisk with basic > tools and drivers lo

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

2012-05-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo, > Almost definitely doesn't fit on floppy anymore, not since 2.2.0 or > such. Even 2.4.x branch is basically (officially?) dead now. Yes a modern Linux kernel and initrd (boot time ramdisk with basic tools and drivers loaded before the harddisk is accessed further) can easily be 5 an

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

2012-05-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> http://lennartb.home.xs4all.nl/linux.html >> >> has plenty of pointers for creating your own minimalist Linux bootdisk. >> Personally, I'm still looking for a minimalistic Linux distro that >> contains GCC. Somewhere around 500MB to 1GB ma

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

2012-05-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > At 11:41 AM 5/2/2012, kurt godel wrote: > >>Now that you mention it, I have been toying with the idea of a >>"linux startup disk" that would be comparable in size to a '98 >>startup disk'; problem is, I am too dumb to figure out how to ta

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux

2012-05-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Georg Potthast > wrote: >> >> This 52 MB linux distribution contains gcc: >> http://www.ttylinux.net/dloadPC-x86_64.html Oops, forgot to mention, I assume (?) that maybe you're thinking that this would

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux

2012-05-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Georg Potthast wrote: > > This 52 MB linux distribution contains gcc: > http://www.ttylinux.net/dloadPC-x86_64.html The i686 one is similar, so you should've linked to that one instead, IMO. ;-) Anyways, I'm surprised it's a fairly new gcc (4.4.6). I'll bet

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

2012-05-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, > http://lennartb.home.xs4all.nl/linux.html > > has plenty of pointers for creating your own minimalist Linux bootdisk. > Personally, I'm still looking for a minimalistic Linux distro that > contains GCC. Somewhere around 500MB to 1GB maximum. Rugxulo probably knows one :-) > If you h

[Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux

2012-05-02 Thread Georg Potthast
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

2012-05-02 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 2-5-2012 20:41, kurt godel schreef: > Now that you mention it, I have been toying with the idea of a "linux > startup disk" that would be comparable in size to a '98 startup disk'; > problem is, I am too dumb to figure out how to take a > vmlinuz and boot it up. I assume the vmlinuz has a minima

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

2012-05-02 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 11:41 AM 5/2/2012, kurt godel wrote: >Now that you mention it, I have been toying with the idea of a >"linux startup disk" that would be comparable in size to a '98 >startup disk'; problem is, I am too dumb to figure out how to take a >vmlinuz and boot it up. I assume the vmlinuz has a minimal

[Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

2012-05-02 Thread kurt godel
Now that you mention it, I have been toying with the idea of a "linux startup disk" that would be comparable in size to a '98 startup disk'; problem is, I am too dumb to figure out how to take a vmlinuz and boot it up. I assume the vmlinuz has a minimal number of built in functions like the proverb