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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!

🍎 Guide: https://github.com/w84death/floppinux

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.