http://www.osnews.com/story/1699/A_Crash_Course_in_Minimalist_Linux_Systems Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:24:20 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Here are 2 tools that should work in windows, the first one being more flexible and developed IMHO.

Explore2fs: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

FSDExt2:
http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/content.html#FSDEXT2

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For DOS: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/

For OS/2: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/matthieu.willm/ext2-os2/ Mon, 09 Sep 2002 04:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

it is basically windows explorer for your ext2 partitions. i have used it to read data off of my drives (well when they were ext2 anyway) with no problems. i never tried writing but that is not recommended anyway. Mon, 09 Sep 2002 04:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? maybe i should the html support line a little more Mon, 09 Sep 2002 04:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I always liked the 2-disk XWindow system:
http://www.thepub.nildram.co.uk/mirrors/2diskxwin/2diskXwin.htm
But the author seem to have completely take down all its references to it...

And of course, there are the special firewall distros etc, that all fit in 1-2 disks. There are about 5-6 projects like that to be found around.

James, READ how to make links on osnews before you press that darned submit button. Mon, 09 Sep 2002 04:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? LinuxPlanet had a look at several CD-based rescue discs a little while back: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/4294/1/ Mon, 09 Sep 2002 06:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Free Software Mon, 09 Sep 2002 07:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? CD distros are a lot easyer and more powerfull then floppy distros... try Knoppix. despite it's use of KDE its actually rather fast if you have enough memory (128mb will do). it'll mount all your drives and even autoconfig your CD burner! Mon, 09 Sep 2002 11:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? KNOPPIX Linux Live CD 3.1 is excellent. I burnt a copy to CD and boot it up on any workstation that I sit at when at college.
If you care to read the 'knoppix-cheatcodes.txt' ( http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/knoppix-cheatcodes.txt ) then you will find that if you pass this option 'knoppix desktop=gnome' at the LILO bootprompt, it will boot up in GNOME2. TWM, LARSWM and WindowMaker window managers are also available. Mon, 09 Sep 2002 12:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Get a copy of timo's rescue cd, and burn it to a business card sized cd. It's saved me on more than one occasion. Mon, 09 Sep 2002 12:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Beos was made to fit on one disk, with a web browser, just like QNX.

Those who deny should search through these message boards - it was confirmed by JLG in one of his columns in the newsletter, and also by C. Herboth in the comments of a particular story on this site.

It was just an experiment, I think, and after that, they started developing BeIA.

I know that BFS barely fits on one disk itself, so how did they cram in BeOS and the web browser? Well, Cris mentioned something about a compressed file system, or something. Search on the site - I think they coments were under a story about QNX.

Anyway, if people still deny it, then they should ask their ex-be engineer husbands (hehe...) Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Eugenia: did you not see that i owned up to my mistake in the very next post? i would have fixed it if i could have. Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Who is this Eugenia bitch and why is she on permanent PMS ?

A long time OSNews reader, I am moving over to another site. OSNews has developed too much attitude now-a-days and it doesn't go down well, esp. early in the morning. Mon, 09 Sep 2002 15:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Goodbye, and don't forget to send us a postcard. Mon, 09 Sep 2002 16:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? No, I did not see it, because I was still writting my own comment when you posted your second one. Mon, 09 Sep 2002 16:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? hey can anyone tell me what linux distribution is very very small and has a good GUI+not difficult to install?
please this is very important
vasheel Mon, 09 Sep 2002 17:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Any Linux user should take a lesson from this guy and read Bootdisk-HOWTO.
Create your own bootable floppy with kernel that supports your system and modules you want to have. Mon, 09 Sep 2002 20:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? FreeBSD is what you want Booting from floppy and mounting arbitrary volumes works pretty well from FreeBSD, and it uses 2 floppies (or 1, depending...). Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Not sure if there is a linux distro that fits your needs, but QNX fits all but the Linux part of your request. Check it out if you haven't already.

Russ Wed, 11 Sep 2002 00:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? well i've checked QNX it's quite limited you know
any more suggestions?i've heard that there's a Beos that can fit on a diskette? Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments