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- From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: WHERE is bootable rootdisk?
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 05:41:03 GMT
- Organization: Just me.
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- Message-ID: <1gp3tfINNmh0@uwm.edu>
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- Summary: Answer.
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- mliggett@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Mister Wizard) writes:
- >i looked for it on tsx-11 and couldn't find it.
- >I have a 486 w/ only 2MB ram and I want to install Linux, but I'm
- >not about to wait through the swapfest that SLS would put me through.
-
- I know what you mean! [Peter, can't you do it the bootable root way?]
-
- Hong Jiu Lu's bootable rootdisks may be found as:
-
- tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/GCC/rootdisk/3rootdisk.Z and
- tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/GCC/rootdisk/5rootdisk.Z
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- The first is for 3.5" floppy drives, the second for 5.25" drives.
- You'll probably also want the .../GCC/rootdisk/README.rootdisk file too.
-
- >I will soon have 6MB but would like to get familiar with Linux first.
- >Also, does this installation contain emacs, lilo, elm, gcc, et. al.?
- >Thanks a bunch.
-
- The bootable rootdisk has lilo and enough of the basic utilities to let
- you install it onto your hard drive (cp, vi, mount, ls, fdisk, compress,
- more, tar [note that tar must be uncompressed before it's useable], etc.)
-
- His "basedisk" collection contains lots of GNU utilities.
-
- No emacs, no elm... but GCC 2.2.27d and its libraries are on other disks.
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- Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
- Occupation: Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and Linux fan
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