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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: smokey on 8 September 2002, 13:10

Title: NT on a disk
Post by: smokey on 8 September 2002, 13:10: I know this is the Microsoft eradication society but anyway

I am trying (and succeding so far) at squeezing windows NT 3.51 onto a floppy disk (2 at most) (http://smile.gif) . It is quite simple to make windows NT load of a disk and It will show you can squeeze windows down a lot.

I am also working on IE (and other things like that) free versions of windows 2000 and XP.

No I do not work at litepc (think 98lite) (http://smile.gif) but I find this a good mental challenge.

Any comments?
Title: NT on a disk
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 8 September 2002, 13:18: NetBSD can run off of 2 floppies
Mac OS 7.0 or 7.0.1 can run off 1 floppy

Not to flame, just to inform!
Title: NT on a disk
Post by: trc3 on 8 September 2002, 14:01: Can Darwin run from a floppy?
Title: NT on a disk
Post by: Kintaro on 8 September 2002, 16:06: http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/ (http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/)
MuLinux, and theres also reactos which is a free NT, im downloading it now!
Title: NT on a disk
Post by: Calum on 8 September 2002, 16:21: see all this stuff that can run off a floppy? i'm interested in that, is any of it available for download? are you guys planning to host your floppy versions once they are finished? even for a week or so? i'd be interested in getting copies, that's all...
Title: NT on a disk
Post by: choasforages on 8 September 2002, 20:10: on this issue

how well does litestep work
Title: NT on a disk
Post by: RudeCat7 on 8 September 2002, 20:15: I love all this stuff that fits on a floppy!

Tom's root boot
Freesco
FreeDos
Qnix Demo

And I don't mind using a Win98 boot disc, cuz it doesn't crash, at least I don't think so.

There's this program I use called LXpic (dos) and all it does is display graphics files. I use it on a 486 with no hard drive and I use it to test cheap monitors that I want buy. If they can't handle a Trident 9440, I don't buy them.

What other cool programs fit on a floppy? Preferably Linux.

If you're curious, at least it's not Windows...
LXpic and other dos stuff (http://members.cox.net/dos/graphx01.htm#imageview)

[ September 08, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]

Here's a page for LinuxLinux Floppies (http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/)

[ September 08, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]
Title: NT on a disk
Post by: TheQuirk on 8 September 2002, 20:33: http://www.linux.org/dist/ (http://www.linux.org/dist/)

Under "minimalist"
Title: NT on a disk
Post by: KernelPanic on 8 September 2002, 20:36: Basic Linux is cool.
Title: NT on a disk
Post by: TheQuirk on 8 September 2002, 20:41: quote:
Originally posted by choasforages:
on this issue

how well does litestep work

it's great, but a bit of a system resource hogger
Title: NT on a disk
Post by: Calum on 8 September 2002, 23:40: i thought litestep sucked. i installed in winME, and it immediately required a system reinstall. (just like installing any other program in windows ME then...)