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DLX
full featured linux system running from one 3,5" floppydisk
- Operating system
- Linux
- File size
- 0 KB
- License
- Not Specified
- Last updated
- Mar 12, 2025
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Overview
What is DLX?
full featured linux system running from one 3,5" floppydisk
In depth
A closer look at DLX
Introduction
DLX is a full featured linux system running on Intel PC's. The special thing is that DLX comes with only one 3,5" floppydisk. DLX boots with a kernel >= 1.3.89 and starts a ramdisk image. In addition to that DLX also has a writeable ext2 filesystem of about 130 kb on the same disk to easily store configuration scripts (survives booting, is not on the
ramdisk !). Further is DLX fully prepared for the paralell-port ZIP-Drive which allows you to mount 100 mb disks. You can even put large programs like perl5 on the disk because a special directory on the ZIP-disk is mounted as /usr/local/* ! These features make DLX the ideal disk for network trouble- shooting and/or FTPing from a university pc-lab if you do not have your own PC connected to the internet or your dialup is just too expensive/slow.
Downloading DLX
DLX is distributed in source only because it is almost sure that you have a different kernel setup than I have !
Note: You have to be root to de-tar and to install DLX !
DLX is a full featured linux system running on Intel PC's. The special thing is that DLX comes with only one 3,5" floppydisk. DLX boots with a kernel >= 1.3.89 and starts a ramdisk image. In addition to that DLX also has a writeable ext2 filesystem of about 130 kb on the same disk to easily store configuration scripts (survives booting, is not on the
ramdisk !). Further is DLX fully prepared for the paralell-port ZIP-Drive which allows you to mount 100 mb disks. You can even put large programs like perl5 on the disk because a special directory on the ZIP-disk is mounted as /usr/local/* ! These features make DLX the ideal disk for network trouble- shooting and/or FTPing from a university pc-lab if you do not have your own PC connected to the internet or your dialup is just too expensive/slow.
Downloading DLX
DLX is distributed in source only because it is almost sure that you have a different kernel setup than I have !
Note: You have to be root to de-tar and to install DLX !
Verdict
Should you download DLX?
DLX runs on Linux and is available under the Not Specified license — the installer is 0 KB. We’ve catalogued it under DLX.
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At a glance
DLX specifications
- Category
- DLX
- Publisher
- wu-wien.ac.at
- Last updated
- Mar 12, 2025
- License
- Not Specified
- Operating system
- Linux
- File size
- 0 KB
- Price
- Free
- Page views
- 784
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