Boot floppies web-1.0

Released on 22 March 2008, needs 48Mb RAM

This floppy set will boot a SliTaz stable web version. You can write floppies with SliTaz bootfloppybox, Windows rawrite or simply dd:

# dd if=fd001.img of=/dev/fd0

If you have a CD-ROM, a USB port and a USB key or a network card, but you can't boot these devices directly, then try floppy-grub4dos first. This 1.44Mb floppy provides tiny programs to boot these devices without BIOS support and some other tools.

This floppy set uses the BIOS instead of the linux driver. You can boot SliTaz using unsupported floppy drives such as some PCMCIA devices.

The web version of 1.0 is launched by default - the filesystem is mostly mounted from the web. You can select memtest or ipxe with the up, down and enter keys (the boot menu is built with this tool).

Start your computer with fd001.img. It will show the kernel version string and the kernel cmdline line. You can edit the cmdline. Most users can just press Enter.

The floppy is then loaded into memory (one dot each 64KB) and you will be prompted to insert the next floppy, fd002.img.

Each floppy set detects disk swaps and can be used without a keyboard.

Good luck.

ISO image floppy set

You can restore the ISO image on your hard disk using:

# dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fdiso01.img
# dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fdiso02.img
# ...
# cat fdiso*.img | cpio -i

Images generation

• All these floppy images are built from a core or a Nin1 ISO.
• The loram is preprocessed by tazlitobox (Low RAM tab) or tazlito build-loram.
• The versions 1.0 and 2.0 are built with bootfloppybox available since 3.0.
• The newer versions are built with taziso floppyset available since 5.0.
• You can extract the kernel, cmdline and rootfs* files with this tool.
• You can change the floppy format (to 2.88M, 1.2M ...) with this tool.