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Distribuable boot floppy disk #15

Open mateuszviste opened 1 year ago

mateuszviste commented 1 year ago

Maybe this could be some SvarDOS subproject: compute and publish a "floppy bootdisk" for emergency things or floppy-only systems? Such floppy would come with no installer and no svp packages, only the kernel and some basic applications (very similar in this aspect to Svarog86).

There, having a multilang environment could make sense, if its cost is not prohibitive - although for 360K floppies this might not be possible.

Such bootable floppy could be computed together with SvarDOS (by a dedicated script), so it would be kept up-to-date automatically and use the same CORE packages as "hard-disk based" SvarDOS systems.

evan commented 1 year ago

I used the first SvarDOS install disk for this purpose by just exiting the installer. A purpose-built disk with more tools makes sense, especially if you could bring up networking and EtherDFS with it.