Linux on a Floppy: Intro to Mini Linux Distros

GonzoJohn writes: "If you've ever been stuck on the freeway with a flat tire and no jack, you know what it's like to have a Linux system crash and not have a boot disk. And although nearly every Linux distribution company asks you make a boot/recovery floppy when you install Linux for the first time, many users skip this important step. Out of the boot/recovery disk concept was born the Mini-Linux distribution." Read this article on Linux Orbit, with a brief intro to some of the mini-distros available.

Comments

Unix is dying his hair.

[sinserve]

Who needs a floppy disk, when you can boot your machine off of PAPER?
Yes folks, my very own FSMOS is able to do just that.

To demonstrate the amount of hackishnes envolved, I used the following off
the shelf concepts -- so not to lock you guys into propierty stuff:

1) A finite set of input symbols (you can increase this all you want, but the clock
cycles are inversely proportional to it.)

2) A finite set of internal states (yes, you can have as many internal states as you want.
TIMTOWTDI, same problems as 1 though)

3) A finite set of out put symbols (it will "say" anything you want :-)

4) a highly polished initial state, s0 (the first one is on the house.)

5) a next-state function (so you can tell it where you want it to go today.)

6) your very own mouth piece, an output function (yay)

You just have to do a little configuration, and make sure you have balanced edges and you
are good to go.

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Ashcroft and Gereld, working for a bent over you }