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astrodust on Aug 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: “I would like to maintain the floppy driver”

In the Y2K era I made a Linux firewall that fit on a single floppy disk: kernel, vi, and a tiny partition config mounted as a loopback device. 1.44MB and it ran great!

Linux owes its existence to the floppy, for years that was the only way to bootstrap it. Good to see support going forward.

VectorLock on Aug 2, 2019 [–]

I still remember my first Linux was Slackware on a stack of 3.5" discs downloaded from a BBS.

astrodust on Aug 6, 2019 | [–]

It was a pretty epic stack, too, like at least twenty disks to do a basic install, each one an adventure to download and image.

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