Linux on a single floppy

So you want to run Linux from a floppy disk? Here's where to get it. And here's how to make the floppy. I tried it in Windows, but there's some problem running .bat files in XP, so I did it through Puppy Linux.

It works. I think you can only make it through Windows if you can somehow get a DOS prompt, which my version doesn't seem to allow. But downloading the tar.gz into Linux and following the instructions in the FAQ yielded me a perfect boot floppy. You can also make a bootable CD-ROM, but for a Linux this small, the floppy is perfect -- and just about every PC is set up to check the floppy drive first in the boot sequence.

The tomsrtbt floppy is a barebones Linux, for sure, but it did boot on an old Celeron 400 MHz with 32 MB of RAM (it wouldn't run on the newish Dell; that's why I sought out one of the few remaining old, creaky PCs in the building). I checked out a few directories, ran vi (man, I've forgotten a lot of old Unix) and shut it down. But if you want to screw around with the lightest Linux around, give tomsrtbt a try.

Linux on a single floppy. Does it get more geeky?