[Nottingham] Once in a Blue Moon (This Wed 29/09/04)

Edgar lists at edgar.org.uk
Wed Sep 29 17:26:29 BST 2004


On Wednesday 29 September 2004 13:42, James Ogley wrote:
> > Simply because the machine is nothing but a bookend at the moment, and
> > my curiousity has been tweaked by various posts about getting linux
> > going off a couple of floppies...
>
> Why a couple?  Tom's Root Boot is still the greatest distro around, and
> comes in at a single floppy, with networking support.
>
> Check it out at http://www.toms.net/rb/

Tom's Root Boot is good but I've known it cause problems on some hardware due 
to the way it formats the floppy.  Probably, just on the old hardware I see a 
lot of though.

Edgar.



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