Slackware offers zipslack, a midsize Linux system that installs into and
runs from a DOS directory. It comes as a 35 meg (or thereabouts) .zip file
and unzips to around 100 megs. Can be downloaded from www.cdrom.com or
sunsite. The idea was to be able to put Linux on a ZIPdrive disk, but it
works fine from a hard disk as well. Can be customized by adding Slackware
.tgz packages fairly easily.
As far as I know, Slackware is the only "main distribution" (at least for
those of us who continue to see Slackware as "main" - not all do, I know)
that offers this option.
There are, of course, some distributions small enough to fit on a couple of
disks, that can be booted directly that way. Examples (in addition to the
muLinux you mention) are trinux and tomsrtbt (the latter somewhere between
an elaborate rescue disk and a smallish distribution). Also available at
sunsite. And take a look at the Stampede beta disk that Cheapbytes released
last month -- it includes many of these small distributions in a "tinylinux"
(or something like that) folder.
At 06:45 PM 4/9/99 +0200, Antonio Memo wrote [abridged]:
>... installing withing a folder in a dos partition is
>really great for new users, curious, people that want to give a try
>- How to get it with the main distributions? 'Till now I've been able to do
>it only with muLinux ...
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