tinyroot
How to make a very small linux bootable drive (by 10maurycy10)
floppinux
An Embedded 🐧Linux on a Single 💾Floppy (by w84death)
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tinyroot
Posts with mentions or reviews of tinyroot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-24.
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Which is the most minimal distro out there?
TinyRoot is 1 mb , the smallest i have ever seen.
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I see your gentoo, and present tinyROOT linux, a 1.1 MB linux "distro". [DETAILS AND ISO IN COMMENTS]
Assorted notes: https://github.com/10maurycy10/tinyroot
floppinux
Posts with mentions or reviews of floppinux.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.
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What would be the hypothetical most minimal (or "debloated" ig) possible linux system?
tinycore has WAY more functionality than OP is looking for. floppinux crams a stripped out but modern kernel and busybox onto a single floppy. tbh it's still a lot of bloat for what OP wants.
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Distro that is only terminal, but still has the packages to install stuff?
You can still do this. Here's kernel v5.13 and Busybox booting from floppy on a 486 laptop with 24M RAM: https://github.com/w84death/floppinux
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I see your gentoo, and present tinyROOT linux, a 1.1 MB linux "distro". [DETAILS AND ISO IN COMMENTS]
I was playing with floppinux about a year ago (and fixing it to actually work on 486 and 586 class hardware, because that's the sort of thing I spend time on). It's modern Linux parts (5.x kernels, modern musl, etc.) that still fits on a floppy.
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A Hang In The Linux Kernel Can Happen If Trying To Read A Broken Floppy Then Ejecting It
Have a go for yourself: https://github.com/w84death/floppinux
What are some alternatives?
When comparing tinyroot and floppinux you can also consider the following projects:
minimal - Minimal Linux Live (MLL) is a tiny educational Linux distribution, which is designed to be built from scratch by using a collection of automated shell scripts. Minimal Linux Live offers a core environment with just the Linux kernel, GNU C library, and Busybox userland utilities.
pifs - πfs - the data-free filesystem!
meta-raspberrypi - Yocto/OE BSP layer for the Raspberry Pi boards
busybox - busybox import to github