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Could Shrine fit on a 1.44MB or 2.88MB floppy? #26

Closed informer2016 closed 4 years ago

informer2016 commented 5 years ago

Good day, @minexew and @tim241 . Please tell, could Shrine fit on a 1.44MB or 2.88MB floppy? Even today the floppies are still being used, for example - as virtual floppies inside the coreboot open source BIOS. Just imagine: your wonderful ShrineOS could be a part of someone's BIOS build! _(for coreboot supported motherboard, maybe you have or could get one - see https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards )_

If you already have a coreboot-supported motherboard, or a real chance to get one, - wouldn't it be cool to be able to launch your own OS straight from the BIOS chip? ;) With one simple command its possible to add any floppy to coreboot BIOS build - and then you see it as a boot entry! Multiple floppies could be added this way (as long as you have enough space left inside the BIOS flash chip, luckily LZMA compression could be used for the stored floppies to reduce their occupied size)

So far I see 3.67 MB ISO image at your Shrine releases, but could it be somehow transformed into a floppy, maybe not 1.44MB but an 2.88MB one?

minexew commented 5 years ago

I don't know. Why don't you find out? :wink:

informer2016 commented 5 years ago

@minexew good question :wink: well, I am not familiar with Shrine codebase, so don't know the candidates like Bible which could be removed without losing much in order to shrink Shrine from 3.7MB to at least 2.88MB. Also my skills as a programmer are quite low to be honest, but I'm really good at testing and writing detailed reports, so if you could make a 2.88MB floppy out of ShrineOS - then I could test it and its' internals and submit a lot of detailed issues. For example, at the moment I am also helping to MichalOS - https://sourceforge.net/p/michalos/tickets/ - submitted 33 tickets and helped to close 20+ by testing a lot of debug builds as a part of this coreboot opensource BIOS . So if you could make such a floppy for me I will try my best to pay it off

minexew commented 5 years ago

I understand. To put it simply and honestly, this is not an issue that I personally care about. So I'm afraid you're on your own.

informer2016 commented 5 years ago

@minexew By the way, I just discovered that there was a LoseThos floppy: https://github.com/Francesco149/TempleOSGit/issues/3 . It is 13 years old but maybe some of its' parts could be used?

I'll try to figure it out... Meanwhile attaching LTFLOPPY.IMG archived inside LTFLOPPY.IMG.ZIP here for the archival purposes LTFLOPPY.IMG.ZIP

informer2016 commented 5 years ago

@minexew Sadly this version above - hangs after printing out InitAllBlkDevs. More info here - https://github.com/Francesco149/TempleOSGit/issues/3 . Maybe I'll try to package it as a floppy when I'd have more free time

minexew commented 4 years ago

LMK if you ever get around to working on this and we can re-open the issue.

informer2016 commented 3 years ago

@minexew Sadly I've to admit I don't have enough free time to work on this