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Offline fmayhewubh

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Instalation on a floppy based system
« on: August 28, 2011, 11:38:27 PM »
is there a floppy, or DOS 5.0 install or, even in theory, a idea of how one might install with a floppy for runing on a 4mb Memory system

Online Rich

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Re: Instalation on a floppy based system
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2011, 11:57:29 PM »

From the Tinycore website FAQ:
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What are the minimum requirements?

An absolute minimum of RAM is 46mb. TC won't boot with anything less, no matter how many terabytes of swap you have.
Microcore runs with 28mb of ram.
The minimum cpu is i486DX (486 with a math processor).
So the simple answer is no.
It is possible to fit a stripped down kernel, uclib, and busybox on a floppy. I don't know if it could
boot in 4Meg of RAM though. Even if it could, there's not much you could do with it.

Offline SamK

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Re: Instalation on a floppy based system
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2011, 05:34:08 AM »
...install with a floppy for runing on a 4mb Memory system
If you are able to increase the RAM to 8MB Grey Cat Linux may be worth a look:
http://www.angelfire.com/anime/db/gcl
   

Offline christophed

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Re: Instalation on a floppy based system
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2011, 04:40:17 PM »
This looks useful:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/4mb-Laptops.html

Edit: the 'newbielink' before the url is not my addition, it's added automagically since I'm also new around here