On Wednesday 03 March 2004 08:54, KirkIsrael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Another random question: does anyone know of a free laptopable
> OS that can be A. installed via floppy and B. powerful enough
> to support wav feedback? I thought FreeDOS might be it, but
Have you gone back and looked at earlier freedos 9 release
candidates? RC1 does have a basic floppy install (3 disks.)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/beta9rc1/
If that doesn't work, there are a ton of Linux boot floppies that
would probably fit the bill, though I don't think I'd want to
install a fullblown Linux distro with desktop apps that way.
http://lwn.net/Distributions/index.php3#floppy
I'm certain you could get one of those floppy-based distros to
boot a kernel with audio support, busybox (tiny replacement for
shell and most common commands), sox (for wav playback), makewav
and lame (for mp3 encoding) using a single floppy. There are a
lot of 2-floppy variants too for slightly more stuff.
Specifically, the "One Floppy MP3 Player" listed at this page
might be a good place to start:
http://osnofianlinux.sourceforge.net/distros.html
Of course if your notebook has network support, nearly every
distro will let you install it over the internet using a network
boot floppy, an image of which is usually included on the boot
CD.
Finally, if you'd rather go the DOS route and don't mind playing
a little fast and loose with copyright it's not exactly tough to
find MS-DOS 6.22, IBM DOS 7, DR-DOS etc. install sets floating
around the net.
Rob
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