Mike Noyes wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 14:24, Eric Spakman wrote: > >>> We do have minimum requirements, and don't support all old hardware. I'm >>> just suggesting we evaluate our minimum requirements again. >>> >>> >> Why should we do that? As long as we can make the setup small enough that >> it can even fit on a floppy (which is a nice goal by itself to not bloat >> the distro). >> > > Eric, > Another reason is, no one to my knowledge has successfully fit linux > kernel 2.6 on a floppy. >
I have managed to fit a linux kernel + drivers to either IDE/cdrom or USB drive on a single 1.44 floppy. The hard part was to get a busybox small but feature rich enough to load the rest of the system from USB/CDROM to RAM and handle it over. -- Natanael Copa ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
