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Comment by bsharitt

4 years ago

I remember back in the late 90's or maybe 2000/2001 running some distro with X from two floppies. OSes that could be run from floppy were great because my parents weren't to keen on me partitioning the hard drive of the family computer, though there were options like the version of Mandrake that easily installed to a disk file on the Windows hard drive(it was probably possible on others, but Mandrake made it easy) and ZipSlack that used a UMSDOS filesystem to run on top of DOS, though it would leave weird little files around the file system that were noticeable once you went back to Windows, so it wasn't popular with my parents either.

muLinux was know for getting a minimal but usable Linux on a single floppy and using two to get a X11 working environment.