Re: Floppy X

[PURCELL@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk]

With all this dicsussion about fitting X on a single floppy we seem to
be ignoring the fact that it has already been done.  TinyX (LSM entry attached)
has done this on a single floppy.

Sure it isn't debian and sure it isn't the latest version of X, but it
shouldn't be that hard to use this as a bootstrap, before giving the option
of upgrading to the latested debian version of X.

Something along the lines of suppling an additional diskto the base set
which contains a minimal X implementation with enough to start an X
dselect which can then be used to upgrade the X server if necessary.

Mark

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35:PkgName    = tinyX 
35:Title      = X free86 2.0 (a reduced version)
25:Version    = 2.0
65:Desc1      = A reduced version of Xfree1.3 that fits on 1 floppy compressed
65:Desc2      = takes up ~5MB installed, and provides everything needed to use
65:Desc3      = X11. There are also readmes for running comfortably in 4mb ram.
65:Author     = Craig I. Hagan (plus the original Xfree people)
65:MaintBy    = Craig I. Hagan hagan@cs.umass.edu
65:MaintAt1   = opine.cs.umass.edu
65:PathFile1  = /linux/tinyX
65:MaintAt2   =
65:PathFile2  =
65:Required1  = any video equipment supported by Xfree1.3 color (VGA, HGA)
65:Required2  = 4mb ram, 5MB harddrive space
65:Required3  =
65:CopyPolicy = those provided by Xfree1.2 and rxvt
65:Keywords   = X11 
15:ApproxSize = 5 MB installed
65:Last3Rel   =
65:Comment1   = This package includes the rxvt files (a reduced version
65:Comment2   = of xterm and the fvwm window manager to make it functional
65:Comment3   = without swapping in a 4mb environment)
30:CheckedBy  = Craig I. Hagan
 8:Date       = 10OCT93
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