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It would be handy to have a bootable floppy that would (automatically?)   connect a pc with the internet, download and install DSL, to your preference (frugal or toram).  Could this all fit on a 1.44mb  floppy?  
 It could be like a DSL seed...
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It would be handy to have a bootable floppy that would (automatically?)   connect a pc with the internet, download and install DSL, to your preference (frugal or toram).  Could this all fit on a 1.44mb  floppy?  
 It could be like a DSL seed...

Wow, it would be almost impossible to make it generic enough.  eg. some computers connect via 56k, DSL modem, cable, some connect through a LAN...  I really like the idea but it seems almost infeasible to me.  I'm interested to see what other people think about this.
The other problem is that you would need KNOPPIX style hardware autodetection.

Tom's floppy contains many network card drivers and utilities but they are semi-manual tasks to get them working in many situations.  Especially with ISA network cards.

But with a little playing around, it should be possible to figure out how to:

1) Make a tom's root/boot floppy disk
2) Boot it and use it to connect to the Internet
3) Use ftp or http to download the script from
distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/frugal_lite.sh
It's only 2k in size, so you could probably save it directly to the floppy somehow.  Worst case, you might have to delete some unneeded driver files etc in order to free up some room.
4) Make the script executable, eg
chmod 755 frugal_lite.sh
5) Run the script, eg
./frugal_lite.sh

I have never done it personally, but it looks pretty straightforward to someone who is not afraid to play around a little bit and learn some new things.
frugal_lite.sh would install the full version of DSL?
frugal_lite.sh would install the full version of DSL?

[b]Sorry about the double post, the first time I tried to reply I was sent to an error page on this server saying something about not being able to find the page...
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