On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:10:37 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> Possibly my poudest achievement was splitting my OS disk across two
> floppies. This required me to completely require the boot script so that
> it rewired all the search paths dynamically, so half the files were on
> the boot floppy and half on another one, but the OS could still find all
> of them immediately. It's a lot more work than it sounds, but it worked
> magnificantly.
> 
> [Again, I suppose theoretically you could do the same thing to a Linux
> distro with enough symlinks. But since I have absolutely NO CLUE how
> Linux actually works and this does not appear to be documented
> anywhere........]

man ln

Thing is, there's no need in Linux to boot off multiple diskettes for 
Linux - you can do a bootable CD that has everything you need *if* it 
doesn't fit on a floppy.  But there are distributions (Damn Small Linux 
for one, Puppy Linux for another IIRC) that are entirely contained on a 
single diskette.

Jim

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