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Well, there is one thing that is needs to be cleared out here...Which OS is actually usable?You can write documents in Windows XP, Menuet OS, DSL Linux, SUSE Linux, Fedora, Slax etc.But...You can't listen to music in Menuet OS. You can't do any serious writing without e.g. OpenOffice on your DSL Linux installation. You can't run SUSE nor Fedora on slow machines. You can't compile n... read more.
a bit weird ... but okay ...
FloppyFW (http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/) - FloppyFW is a router with the advanced firewall-capabilities in Linux that fits on one single floppy disc. GeeXboX (http://www.geexbox.org/) MoviX (http://movix.sourceforge.net/) - The MoviX project is a series of three different tiny Linux CD distributions containing all the software to boot from a CD and play multimedia files through the MPlayer, the best multimedia player in the Unix world. FeatherLinux (http://featherlinux.berlios.de/) - Feather Linux is a Linux distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive and takes up under 115Mb of space. Puppy Linux (http://www.goosee.com/puppy/) - 60MB LNX-BBC (http://www.lnx-bbc.org/) - The LNX-BBC is a mini Linux-distribution, small enough to fit on a CD-ROM that has been cut, pressed, or molded to the size and shape of a business card. Trinux (http://trinux.sourceforge.net/) - Trinux is a ramdisk-based Linux distribution that boots from a single floppy or CD-ROM, loads it packages from an HTTP/FTP server, a FAT/NTFS/ISO filesystem, or additional floppies. Cheers!
With Knoppix you get a distro that runs off a CD with window managers and everything else.
As for the single Floppy distros the most famous one is Coyote Linux, but you can also get Debian distribustions that fit on one floppy and have advanced features related to Debian such as their package management systems and apt-get
MS-DOS?
 lolz! i think it fits in one diskette a long-time ago. what i'm interested in knowing is how small can one fit a working version of a windows version (w98/2k/me/xp) in a credit card sized CD.  heard there is a version of it in win98 running under 50MB. will try to search that sometime.
QUOTE(serverph @ Aug 21 2005, 02:44 PM) MS-DOS? lolz! i think it fits in one diskette a long-time ago. what i'm interested in knowing is how small can one fit a working version of a windows version (w98/2k/me/xp) in a credit card sized CD. heard there is a version of it in win98 running under 50MB. will try to search that sometime.  never heard about that... and i'm not sure that's legal... but... if you will find sumfin please share
QUOTE(machinamedia @ Aug 21 2005, 11:02 PM) never heard about that... and i'm not sure that's legal... but... if you will find sumfin please share it's not a downloadable ISO, it's something you create yourself, with your own licensed version of windows. so nothing illegal there i suppose, if it's not for distribution, and just for personal use. i will dig through my stuff, i did have that printout of instructions before in doing that with win98. but i didn't have the time to do it. makes me regret not doing it when i recently did a complete reinstall of my windows.
Feather linux. That it is small and stable distro.
just a small hint - those OSes from a time long passed should be bootable from 720k-floppies or smaller disks; there was a time when 720k was much and Bill Gates said that 640KB of RAM would be more than necessary for every user... just imagine how fast an OS from those times would run on modern machines, if it boots at all
very true. Theres something to be said about those old OSs
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Well, there is one thing that is needs to be cleared out here...
Which OS is actually usable? You can write documents in Windows XP, Menuet OS, DSL Linux, SUSE Linux, Fedora, Slax etc. But... You can't listen to music in Menuet OS. You can't do any serious writing without e.g. OpenOffice on your DSL Linux installation. You can't run SUSE nor Fedora on slow machines. You can't compile new programs on Slax without an add-on module. You can't run Windows XP as an online server. So, what is "USABLE" anyway? Every OS is usable, but only if you FIND it usable! Want a distro that you can install on your old and slow PC? Use DSL! Want a small and flexible live Linux CD? Use Slax! Want a very small OS that can let you take a peek inside the world of assembler? Use Menuet! Want a complete Linux distro to use at home, work or to install on a server? Use SUSE or Fedora! If you want to play games and/or do video editing, or if you are a beginner, use Windows! So, every OS has it's good sides and bad sides... It's up to you to choose what is usable and what's not. Make a list of your demands and expectations from an operating system and choose any OS that you find fit!
50Mb is not that significantly small. Of course you can burn it on a CD, but since a CD carries 700MB of data, I would rather choose an OS of a bigger size, Knoppix. I have been running Fedora before playing with Knoppix. Knoppix is quite handy and is mostly enough for everyday purposes. There are also many good things about it, say, you can copy the whole image to RAM if you have 1GB of RAM, like me. It runs amazingly fast that way. There is a 4GB version of Knoppix, which includes many more applications. You may also try that out. I always wonder why my Win XP would take more than 3GB solely for the OS. Its codes are not efficient anyway.
Damn Small os is a great thing to me. Especially that it has a graphic enviroment inside those "50 mbytes" is fantastic! Very useful stuff. Thanks!
thats is so damn cool! only 50 mbs, but which one do i download? there are quite a few, who actually use it here? is it good? how do i run it on a pen drive? and is a p3 computer compatible? thanks
wow! can i use my usb wireless with dsl? thanks
How about a single floppy Linux distribution? Try hal91:
http://jspiro.tripod.com/linux/hal91.htm It can run on a 486 processor that has a math coprocessor and on any newer PC... It requires no hard disk because it stores itself inside the RAM, but after you restart/shutdown your PC, all the changes are discarded... Unfortunately, this OS is pretty minimalistic (but what do you expect from a 1.44MB Linux distro from 1998?) and it is not very usable... It can only mount FAT filesystems by using the mount command, so it can be used as a "rescue tool", but still it's a better idea to go for the good ol' Windows 95/98 startup disc .Hal91 hasn't been updated since 1998! So it's a good idea to try some alternative mini Linux distros instead: http://jspiro.tripod.com/linux/hal91.htm#alternatives
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