overfoldix floppy boot?

[garwain]

Hi, I've been away from the forum for ages, but I've been folding for you just the same!.

I've recently come into possession of 2 decent folders which fail to load windows for some unknows reason, so I though I'd try overfoldix, but realized that the POS IBM machines don't boot from CD. Is there any way as of yet to have a floppy boot version of overfoldix? I don't care if the meat of the OS needs to be on CD.

Later I'm going to see if I can come up with a BIOS flash for the system, but I don't hold much hope for that.

Any ideas are appreciated
Garwain
AKA Ben

Just a side note, I am a unix admin, but setting up floppy booting on an extremely cut down version is way out of my field! My main work is mail and web servers...

[samuraisam]

I think David will have to answer that.

-Sam

[Keiron]

Might want to see if there is a floppy out there that can make your computers boot CD's (IE the floppy has only enough stuff on it to make the computer read a CD).
If not, take a look at this (http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/) and just boot into linux with one and then load the OS from there (kinda like a gentoo install thru knoppix/slax)

[samuraisam]

Which *nix is the one that had the full OS (includeing GUI and everything) on one floppy?

I remember seeing it somewhere, is it Folding@Home compatible do you think?

-Sam

[Ven0m]

There is no way you can have good GUI on one floppy.
You'd need some *nix, that is compiled just to start on these machines, make RAMdisk, download FAH, set it up and fold.

Perhaps it could run off one floppy... or a few...

[David]

Overfoldix is CD only just now. I havent had time to update it or make a new version. Should be easy enough to have a floppy boot a minimal system and download a FaH client but the kernel would likely take up ~700kB+ on its own.

I could try with a 2.2.x kernel. A 2.0.x kernel will not work with FaH.

[samuraisam]

But there is Ven0m! It's all coded in assembly, it's crazy.

I found the link.
http://www.menuetos.org/index.htm

-Sam

[electrorcamd]

You can download Smart Boot Manager. Here is the link:
http://btmgr.webframe.org/
Download it, install it on a floppy and then boot from the CD. It should work fine.

[Ven0m]

But there is Ven0m! It's all coded in assembly, it's crazy.

I found the link.
http://www.menuetos.org/index.htm

-Sam

Interesting, but they say on site that it's not POSIX, so it's not very useful :(

[Arkaine23]

Your best bet may be to do an FTP installation of a distro, maybe Suse....

Get the floppy(ies) and follow the instructions. I have a folding service installer for Linux that you could use.