> I have a question about floppy versions of linux. Does anybody know how to make one with the
> abillity to format hard drives. For example, in the windows world you can create a boot floppy,
> and on it has fdisk. My problem with using a windows boot floppy to format linux partitions is
> that sometimes it doesn't work the way I want it to.
A rescue floppy for Slackware requires two 1.44's,
so I would guess a very special tiny kernel would be needed.
There are a few floppy and EPROM sized distros that should
work from a floppy.
Regular distro's need bash which is almost 629 K
so recompiling a regular distro's kernel with everything
turned off but "floppy" probably won't fit.
Any reason to not try doing it with a rescue CD-ROM or
temporarily put the new drive in a working computer?
Which is how I always do it.
--
Ron
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