Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

I'm looking for some pointers as to how to go about this. I have an older pentium 120 laptop, just 32 megs of ram. It has no CD-ROM drive and no OS at all on it right now. <P>I basically need to boot ...

Are there any like that? I can find ultimate boot disk, but am not able to make the disk on that site since it only supports windows. I just want it so that i can make it in linux, and when trouble ...

For this example I use Linux kernel version 2.2.17. The 2.4.0-test8 kernel that I tried did not size the RAM disk for the root file system properly, leading to a ``not enough memory'' message at boot ...