🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi All,

I have recieved many emails ref getting Linux on one bootable floppy
and I thought this may be of assistance to others, so I share the
following sugestions with you all.

1> yard-1.5.tar.gz is available on sunsite mirrors in Linux/system/
   Recovery directory. This is "Yet Another Recovery Diskette" system
   that allows Perl5 scripts to load a single floppy with a selectable
   boot floppy based on your current kernel and configuration. 
   It needs 1.3.48+ Kernel and of course Perl wersion 5.

   I've yet to try this approach because my kernel is 1.2.13 and until
   I am sure that there is a very reliable 2.0+ kernel I cannot afford
   to upgrade.   

2> a bootfloppy both in a.out and elf formats are available from
   ftp.cistron.nl/pub/os/linux/install directory. The filenames are
   bootflop-a.out.img and bootflop-elf.img and are both 1.44Mb in size.
   These boot floppy images are then just simply copied to a 1.44Mb
   floppy and the system rebooted. I assume autoprobing must be on.
   
   I am in the middle of presently down-line-loading both of these
   files from original site.  If anyone is interested I could put them
   in the /pub/incoming directory of zipper.zip.com.au.

3> A suggestion to use DLX. It works by compressing a current ramdisk
   image and therefore is autoconfigured to the current workstation
   and there is about a 130Kb free for other programs. This are is
   mounted as a loop-back device.

   The problem is I was not able to get to the suggested site holding
   DLX. Its suppose to be http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/
   dlx.html.  It anyone is able to get to this site I would like a
   copy of this please.  Additionally, I will be forced to uncompress
   and insert a individual IP address and host name for each student
   floppy. May not be a real problem as I 've only got to do 65 odd
   floppies. (ie: 65 students).  

4> Another great suggestion was to floppy boot the LAN boot rom
   executabe so that the workstation gets acts like a diskless
   workstation and loads bootp from the Linux server.  This is a
   real possibility that would automatically select a IP address from
   the bootp server.

Now I will start testing out these suggestions to see which gives me
the services I need for each students "hard-disk-less" workstation,
without making each floppy disk creation a configuration nightmare.   

Many thanks to Ben, Danny, Charlie, Markus, Nelson, Jeffery, 
Cedric, Craig, Ken and others for assisting.

Cheers Grahame.