On Sunday, February 27, 2000 2:25 AM,
 "Kenneth Alan Boyd Ramsay" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


<snip>I'm a complete Linux newbie myself (just saw FreeBSD on a friend's
systems
> for the first time a few days ago), but I once read about a UNIX emulator
> that ran on DOS systems.  It was called MINIX (or MINUX?), and fitted on
> a single floppy.  Could this be what he's talking about?
>
Yes and you are correct in your description of the OS. Mini Linux is a
scaled down version of the Linux OS, and it can fit on a  single 1.44MB
floppy diskette. It  will also run in as little as 1MB of RAM. There's are
several distributions that will run on an MS-DOS or Win9.x file system
called
'DOSLINUX'. You can download it from
ftp://ftp.simtel.com/mirrors/linux/sunsite/distributions/doslinux/ or from
any Sunsite mirror. These URL's have several other versions of mini linux,
http://www.spsselib.hiedu.cz/monkey/ and
http://dilbert.physast.uga.edu/~andy/minilinux.html.  HTH. :-)

Walter R. Worth
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