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Can Modern Linux Fit on a 1.44mb Floppy? [19:50] | Action Retro (youtube.com)
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Today we're installing a modern Linux... on a single 1.44mb floppy disk!

๐ŸŽ Guide: https://github.com/w84death/floppinux

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[โ€“] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

besides uncompressing itself, there will be other info that is needed at runtime that requires dynamic memory allocation beyond the size of the kernel itself, like hardware/memory maps, framebuffers, filesystem/networking stuff, caches etc.