slimlinux 0.4.0 - A multi-purpose Linux mini distribution.

[Gordon Darling]

slimlinux 0.4.0 - A multi-purpose Linux mini distribution.

About:
slimlinux is multi-purpose Linux mini distribution which fits on one floppy
or can be installed to a FAT partition. It includes Linux 2.2.x, Busybox,
uClibc, IDE/ATAPI/network support, EXT2/Minix/MSDOS filesystems, the
retawq text browser, over 60 Linux utilities, and"the one true" AWK. It is
available in both floppy and hard disk versions. The latter is installed
to a FAT16/FAT32 partition, and both versions run in RAM (8 MB required).

Changes:
This release has a smaller distribution size (1.2 MB), kernel 2.2.19,
BusyBox 0.60.5, "the one true" awk, and retawq 0.2.1 instead of Links.
Both floppy and hard disk versions are available. All Linux utilities
build with gcc and uClibc.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements
License: MIT/X Consortium License
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/slimlinux/
Homepage: http://slimlinux.freezope.org
Tar/GZ:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/slimlinux/46958/url_tgz/slimlinux-0.4.0.tar.gz

Regards
Gordon

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

slimlinux 0.4.0 - A multi-purpose Linux mini distribution.

Downloaded it, used Rawwrite for Windows to write the floppy image,
rebooted.

Syslinux started up, then said "Boot failed", told me to change disks
and try again. No go after several tries. Could be a bad diskette or
something, but the hell with it.

And since the author says you're on your own with it, I guess that's
as far as I want to take this one. Probably just doesn't support my
hard drive or something. On a floppy, how good can you make hardware
support, anyway?