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Unix on a floppy!! I am very confused!!!!!
Calum:
Wow! i just discovered, on a CD, that i've got THREE other versions of linux! (well, they are all unix anyway...)
One is Trinux, 3 floppies worth, and one is PicoBSD 0.4, which fits on 1 floppy, and is for dialup networking, and finally, a whopping great 181 Mb distribution of PhatLinux.
Now i'd like to try these out but they're all funny.
Trinux is fine, fromthe floppies, but i want to set up a little partition and add it to lilo, can i? it would seem so. or are there issues?
Now, what about PicoBSD? it comes as a .bin file. i presume i am supposed to copy it to a floppy and boot from it, but it's just too big for a DOS format floppy by a few kb, so what am i supposed to do? i am too dumb to remember (or be able to find out) what utilities exist in a red hat installation that can format floppies as ext2, how do i do this? and will it give me access to more of the space on the disk?
Also, can i also put this on a 2Mb partition and add it to lilo?
Now what about PhatLinux? It's a bunch of stuff that sits in a folder in windows!!! When you run Linux.bat, it reboots yr computer into linux, no dodgy running on top of windows seems like, but can't i put this on a seperate partition and add it to lilo too? will it have to be a DOS partition? or can it be ext 2 or 3 if i want?
Okay, really the only question i want answered here is how do i format a floppy as ext2? i can figure out the rest by trial and error myself, but i just wanted to tell you about my new linux finds!
thanks dudes and dudettes!
Master of Reality:
In KDE there is a program called Kfloppy which can format a floppy as Ext.2, i dont know how to do this from the console.
[ April 13, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]
Calum:
i remember seeing that now you mention it, although my kde keeps going belly up (it's version 1.1 so i'm giving up on it till i can get 3.0)
thanks for that! although i am still looking for a console way to do it! :D
Master of Reality:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
i remember seeing that now you mention it, although my kde keeps going belly up (it's version 1.1 so i'm giving up on it till i can get 3.0)
thanks for that! although i am still looking for a console way to do it! :D
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KDE 3.0 is freakin amazing, i'm using it now. It is kick-ass.
http://www.angelfire.com/ri2/42/images for screenshots of my desktop
Calum:
i'll try that, ta, in the meantime i tried adding the other 3 OSs to lilo, but with no luck.
Trinux doesn't have a valid boot signature, or something. It boots fine from the floppies, but not if i make a partition and add it to /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf, i remembered to run lilo after i had edited these! (something i forgot last time i did this!)
Anyway, that's what i get for Trinux and for PicoBSD and PhatLinux is one of those loadlin.exe things. it sits in a folder on yr windows side, then you run linux.bat, and it supposedly reboots into linux. I got a kernel panic the first time i tried this, so fuck it. i am not too bothered at having a fat32 running linux system when the one i already have is okay.
Now PicoBSD is giving me gip. I formatted a floppy using kfloppy, to ext2 format, but it's still only 1.38Mb in size... and this .bin file is definitely 1.41Mb. It just won't go!
maybe i have to run this bin file in some way possibly from DOS to install it.
That's not a question btw, but if you do happen to know, it would be nice for me to find out!
I'll keep plugging away at it!
addendum:
quote:PicoBSD install
I have prepared a PicoBSD image
containing bridge, router and ipfw.
All you need to do is to download the above image file (1.44MB),
dump it to a formatted floppy using "dd" or equivalent command,
and use that floppy to boot the machine acting as a bridge or router.
You can then enable bridging and ipfw with commands like
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I just found the above on the good old internet (using google of course!) so maybe i should look into this dd thing quicksmart...
[ April 14, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
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