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.

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

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 ...