Ben A L Jemmett wrote: > > Max compressed root partition you can fit on a floppy is > 1.44MB or 1.68MB depending on how accommodating you want > to be; that won't give you much room at all, IME.
The BasicLinux root partition is currently 4mb (including 700kb of free space). The compressed image fits entirely on one 1.44mb floppy. > You could use two ramdisk images, Even two floppies is clunky. I definitely don't want to go to three. Ideally, I would like to find a way to boot Linux from winXP using no more than one floppy. > mounts the root off the tail of the disk image or a second > disk, then mounts the FAT partition If winXP had a FAT partition, there would be no problem. Boot Linux from one floppy and get compressed filesystem from the FAT partition. However, AFAIK winXP doesn't usually have a FAT partition. Cheers, Steven To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
