Re: Anyone tried basiclinux?

From: Walter Mautner (new.10.eatallspam_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 10/06/03 

Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 00:30:45 +0200

Day Brown wrote:
....
>> Try find the floppy boot images on that cdrom, use rawrite to create a
>> boot floppy with the 2.4 kernel (chose after reading the readme) and
>> then try to install after booting from the floppy.
>> Good Luck!
> I'll need it. the kernel 2.4 is 33 megs.

Aaargh. Please read the doc before you start trolling. It's the source
(c-code in textual form) together with codes for a lot of modules you
won't ever need, and documentation you obviously never read. On the
distro cd there are also various images to fit on a floppy. Probably one
for cd boot, one for network, one for harddrive (loop device). 

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