[plug] Floppy based Mini-Distro's

Jay Turner jturner at bsis.com.au
Sun Jun 13 11:44:34 WST 2004


Brad Wrote:
> I can give you one of my floppy images if you like. It supports
> ash (which is pretty bash
> compatible) and has dd and most other stuff you will need.
> You would need to loopback mount the floppy, uncompress the ext2
> initrd, loopback mount that,
> add/delete to your hearts content, gzip it back up and copy it to
> the floppy.
>
> Hell, it's at http://www.wasp.net.au/~brad/boot_floppy.img

Thanks Brad,

I'll try and give it a go this week time permitting.

>From what you say, it should be fine as I don't need any filesystem access
or anything,
just the ability to dd one partition to another.

Thanks again
Jay





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