s0c0 Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 A co-worker of mine works in data conversion, often the only way he can get data off a clients old (and i mean old) server is through burning data to a disk. So what he needs is a floppy-disk based distro like a live floppy linux that will boot up in memory and allow him to write data to a cdrom. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadTechie Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 what about Boot from USB or.. Boot from CD and store to USB! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Your not going to find much in the way of bootable floppies now days, take a look at the slax liveCD though, it has a boot option to load itself into ram then eject the cd. But really, if these machines are that old, there probably not going to run real well when slax uses all the ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koobi Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 yeah for SLAX you need something in the excess of 300MB RAM to copy to RAM in order to eject the booting media. you can also run SLAX on a USB, however, i don't think you have that option. technically you should be able to boot at least an old lite kernel from a floppy. i just googled and found this: linux on a floppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0c0 Posted April 12, 2007 Author Share Posted April 12, 2007 USB won't work since he would be mailing these floppy's to clients and then walking them through the cmd line over the phone. Yikes, but thats his solution lol. I suggested live cd distro's but he his never sure how much RAM they will have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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