Begin3 Title: RamFloppy Version: 1.20 Entered-date: 18JUN2003 Description: Small Linux system for the purpose of system booting or repairing, a boot/rescue system. You can put this system on a 1.44MB formatted floppy. It's more or less designed for non-networked, stand-alone, home pc hard drive boot/rescue/backup/maintenance! It has large file support, you can use all the programs with files larger than 2GB! You can only have files larger than 2GB on a ext2/3, reiserfs, jfs, or xfs partition. The programs e2fsck, mke2fs, and tune2fs have ext3 filesystem support. It includes the fat16/32, ext2/3, reiserfs, and ntfs resizing programs (parted, ntfsresize). It also includes the reiserfs check/repair program `reiserfsck'. It has support for these filesystems: ext2 iso9660 msdos ntfs reiserfs ufs vfat The kernel is version 2.4.21, it just has support for IDE hard drives. You need at least 8mb of RAM and a 486dx CPU to boot it. Use `fdformat' or `superformat' to format a floppy to 1.44MB, if not already. # fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440 Then write it to the floppy. # cat ramf-120.img.bin > /dev/fd0 If you want a larger CD version of the rescue system, get `rip-54.iso.bin' from the site below! Keywords: Single Floppy Linux Boot/Rescue System! Author: robotti@godmail.com (Kent Robotti) Maintained-by: Primary-site: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip ramf-120.img.bin 1440Kb Alternate-site: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery Platforms: Linux Copying-policy: GPL End