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NAME="mobile-guide-a4-survey-micro-linuxes"
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>Appendix D. Survey about Micro Linuxes</H1
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> Because of their small or non-existent footprint,
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micro-Linuxes are especially suited to run on laptops -
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particularly if you use a company-provided laptop running
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Microsoft-Windows9x/NT. Or for installation purposes using another
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non Linux machine. There are several
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<EM
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>micro</EM
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> Linux distributions out there
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that boot from one or two floppies or CD/DVD.
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>
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Also a
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<A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>BootDisk-HOWTO</A
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is available. Thanks to Matthew D. Franz maintainer of
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<A
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HREF="http://www.trinux.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Trinux</A
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> for this tips and
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collecting most of the following URLs. Search also
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for "mini distribution" at
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<A
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HREF="http://freshmeat.net/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>FreshMeat</A
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>.
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><P
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> <A
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HREF="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Knoppix</A
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by Klaus Knopper is a bootable CD with a collection of
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GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and
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support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and
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USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used
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as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or
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adapted and used as a platform for commercial software
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product demos. It is not necessary to install anything
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on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD
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can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on
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it. A kix (Knoppix mini CD) is now available in the
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contrib directory.
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</P
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></LI
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> <A
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HREF="http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>MuLinux</A
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> by Michele
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Andreoli.
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> <A
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HREF="http://www.toms.net/~toehser/rb/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>tomsrbt</A
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"The most Linux on one floppy. (distribution or panic disk)." by Tom
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Oehser.
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> Trinux
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<A
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HREF="http://www.trinux.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Trinux</A
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"A Linux Security Toolkit" by Matthew D. Franz.
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><LI
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> <A
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HREF="http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>LRP "Linux Router Project"</A
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</P
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> <A
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HREF="http://home.sol.no/~okolaas/hal91.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>hal91</A
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HREF="http://chris.silmor.de/hal91/"
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>hal91</A
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is a very small Linux distribution that fits on one floppy disk.
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You need at least a 386 machine (FPU not necessary) with 8 mb ram to run
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HAL91. The entire system runs in ram, so you can remove the floppy after
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booting. The kernel supports IDE hard disks and ATAPI cdrom drives.
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Supported filesystems are ext2, iso9660 and vfat, optional encryption using
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AES is possible. Limited support for ethernet cards (NE2000 only) is also
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included. Support for scsi adapters, parallel zip drive and other ethernet
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cards is possible by loading kernel modules from an optional package.
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><LI
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> <A
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HREF="http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/"
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>floppyfw</A
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by Thomas Lundquist.
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<A
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HREF="http://www.kiarchive.ru/pub/linux/mini-linux/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>minilinux</A
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>:
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Minimal linux package. UMSDOS filesystem (no repartition), TCP/IP and
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SLIP/PPP, X Windows including Xmosaic. Support Soundblaster, mouse, modem,
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SCSI.
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</P
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> <A
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HREF="http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/linux/monkey/docs/english.htm"
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>Monkey Linux</A
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is a minimal Linux ELF distribution in 7.5MB archive (5
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diskettes) designed to be used within MSDOS and to allow the user to
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experiment with Linux anywhere he/she wants.
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</P
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><LI
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> <A
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HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html"
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>DLX</A
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by Erich Boehm is a full featured linux system running on Intel PC's. The special thing is
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that DLX comes with only one 3,5" floppydisk. DLX boots with a kernel >= 1.3.89 and
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starts a ramdisk image. In addition to that DLX also has a writeable ext2
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filesystem of about 130 kb on the same disk to easily store configuration
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scripts (survives booting, is not on the ramdisk !). Further is DLX fully
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prepared for the paralell-port ZIP-Drive which allows you to mount 100 mb
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disks. You can even put large programs like perl5 on the disk
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because a special directory on the ZIP-disk is mounted as /usr/local/*!
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</P
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> <A
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HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/images/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>C-RAMDISK</A
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creates a bootable X Windows system
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that fits on two 1.44 MB floppies. The kernel (2.0.26)
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includes networking (PPP and dialin script, NE2000,
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3C509) and the driver for the parallel port ZIP drive as
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modules. The file system contains pppd, rlogin, tar
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and ncftp and a small X Windows system. Requires a
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Linux system (with 2.0.0 kernel or above) to create the
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2 floppies. The cramdisk floppy set will boot to "xdm"
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on a 486/pentium with 16MB RAM. For networking, the IP
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addresses and/or ppp dialin sequence need to be set.
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A method for modifying the floppy image is included.
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> <A
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HREF="http://pocket-linux.coven.vmh.net/"
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>pocket-linux</A
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HREF="http://www.linuxlots.com/~fawcett/yard/"
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>YARD</A
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> <A
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HREF="http://linux.apostols.org/guru/wen/"
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>ODL</A
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HREF="http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/"
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>SmallLinux</A
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by Steven Gibson. Three disk micro-distribution of Linux and utilities.
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Based on kernel 1.2.11. Root disk is ext2 format and has
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<B
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CLASS="command"
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>fdisk</B
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> and <B
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CLASS="command"
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>mkfs.ext2</B
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> so that a
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harddisk install can be done. Useful to boot up on old machines with
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less than 4MB of RAM.
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> <A
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HREF="ftp://ftp.blueznet.com/pub/colorg"
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>cLIeNUX</A
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by Rick Hohensee client-use-oriented Linux distribution
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> <A
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HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel"
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>linux-lite</A
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by Paul Gortmaker for very small systems with less
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than 2MB RAM and 10MB harddisk space (1.x.x kernel)
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> See also the packages at
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<A
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HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/recovery/!INDEX.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>MetaLab</A
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formerly known as SunSite
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and the
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<A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html"
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>Boot-Disk-HOWTO</A
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.
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> You may also consider some of the boot floppies provided by various
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distributions falling into this category, e.g. the boot/rescue floppy of
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Debian/GNU Linux.
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> If you like to build your own flavour of a boot floppy you may do so
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manually, as described in the
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or using some helper tools, for instance <B
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>mkrboot</B
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> (provided at least as a
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Debian/GNU Linux package) or <B
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>, which is
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part of the <SPAN
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> Also you might try to build your Linux system on a ZIP drive. This is
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described in the
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