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From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: silo overflow
Message-ID: <1992Aug11.224151.25163@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
References: <1992Aug10.220745.21070@unixland.natick.ma.us> <1992Aug11.004753.9708@unislc.uucp>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 22:41:51 GMT
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erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
>The latest linux kernel (0.97-pl2) fits on one 1.44 MB diskette with room to
>spare.  All you need is on the diskette (minus gcc, of course).
>The mcc-interim release of linux (which includes gcc and a lot of binaries)
>fits on 5 diskettes. :)

The 386BSD kernel fits on a floppy too.  I was talking about BUILDing a
kernel, not BOOTing it!
:-)

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