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Old 07-20-2004, 03:05 PM   #1
netcrusher88
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all-purpose floppy distro


Is there any one all-purpose floppy distro with, say, a basic kernel with network cards, HD, CD, and FS's; GCC; links/lynx; and the supporting stuff? Perhaps I should just use Knoppix, but you know, it's a lot harder to scratch a floppy disk than a CD. Or is there, perhaps, a way I could design, say, a floppy distro to load everything but DHCP from an NFS server somewhere?

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Old 07-20-2004, 03:34 PM   #2
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I have played around with this nifty floppy. Granted it's for a router / firewall but it has a basic kernal and somethings built into it? check it out..

http://www.freesco.org/
 
Old 07-22-2004, 03:30 AM   #3
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the debian installer can be booted from floppies, after that you just download the minimum base system and the packages you need.
 
  


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