I recently stumbled upon mention of zipslack, and was dismayed to see it was dropped after version 11. Does anyone know of a project similar to zipslack that uses slack14.1, or at the very least 14? Thanks

Define 'similar'. If you mean using the umsdos filesystem then it can't be done. If you mean using a small subset of packages, then something can be done. Or what else about it did you want?

Well I was reading about zipslack being runable on 16mb of ram, unzippable into/onto any disk/subdir to produce it's whole system, etc. Basically the similarity I'm looking for is it's absolutely miniscule footprint, and great portability, while being possible to unzip/unpack the os into a directory if I really wanted to.

Is slax going to be as close as I can get to that, or is there a project that's closer to zipslack in system requirements and portability?

Edit: Just remembered slitaz as well, but even that isn't as small as zipslack I don't think...

It is highly unlikely that you will be able to get something as small as zip slack. Requirements change over the years and will ultimately require more resources.

You'd probably benefit from some work that kikinovak did in finding a usable stripped version of Slackware. It would provide you with a good base that you can then add packages to.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...re-4175526790/

Take a look at TinyCore. It's 12MB by default and I guess you can add some stuff if you want:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/

Wow, 180mb for a full system. That's impressive. I'll definitelly read through his docs and experiement with what he has put together. Thanks for the suggestion!

E: It seems 180mb was for a project that inspired his. I don't see anywhere how small his is. I might just have to try it out and see for myself.

12mb... that's even more impressive. Awesome. I'll take a look at it. Is it just build from scratch? Er.. no a couple devs from DSL forked it and made Tiny Core right? I keep hearing about this but never really take it too seriously. I guess I'll take a look at it.

The problem was more than simple numbers. Both the way windows works and the way linux works prevents you from booting and running it from windows. You can kick command.com out like you used to anymore.

To get linux working however from a non-linux filesystem is not that hard. To get linux working from a squashfs/aufs file system compressed virtual hard drive is also not that hard.

One can easily run a free virtual machine like qemu.

Still one of the best is QNX floppy still available on web.

MenuetOS is pretty small too.

Not sure how much you can do with Co-Linux.

I'm not sure what you're referencing or responding to with that second sentence. And what's this about command.com? That line didn't make sense to me, sorry.

Virtualisation wasn't the point of this post. I know I can load any os into a virtual environment fairly easily. The point was to have an os option similar in size and system requirments as zipslack, that is more modern.

Menuet has a larger footprint and heavier system requirements than what I'm looking to use.

CoLinux is an interesting project, but again missing the point of the post. When I said I'd like to be able to unpack/install the provided os into a directory, I meant unload all it's system files and such into a directory to allow for a chroot environment or something.