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| bootE Linux is yet another minimalist Linux distribution. bootE is pronounced boot-ee and the E could mean Everywhere or Emergency - no one really knows for sure, but we have taken it to mean Everywhere. Anyway this site is the home of bootE and we welcome you. |
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bootE v0.20-r2 released! [Saturday August 30 2003] The second release candidate for bootE Linux version 0.20 is out. In addition to a few minor adjustments, support for MS-DOS and VFAT file systems were compiled back into the kernel. Furthermore support for ReiserFS was added. For more details please refer to the ChangeLog file. |
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New release candidate!! [Wednesday February 19 2003] bootE Linux version 0.20-r1 is out. It's a release candidate to v0.20 and it therefore still requires some testing. Version 0.20-r1 is a major improvement compared to version 0.10, because it includes more utilities and the kernel now actually supports the generic i386 processor. For more details please refer to the ChangeLog file. It is now also possible to download the complete bootE Linux project as a tarball. |
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The bootE Linux distribution is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version. bootE Linux is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. |
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| The current bootE Linux release is based on kernel version 2.4.20, the uClibc C library and the BusyBox multi-call binary. bootE Linux supports only single user mode and is contained entirely on a single floppy disk. The only text editor we have chosen to include is the very compact e3 editor, primarily because it is so small and because it is able to mimic the key bindings of some commonly used editors. Check this text file for a simple list of utilities included and check the ChangeLog file for information on new features in the latest version. |
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| We've been able to boot version 0.20-r1 in VMware using only 6MB of memory, so in any real-life application a minimum of 8MB is probably required. The Linux kernel used with version 0.20-r2 is compiled for the i386 processor family, so your processor will have to be at a 386 or better. The Linux kernel used in the initial bootE version (v0.10) was compiled for the Pentium processor, so it probably wont boot on anything less :-/ |
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| Latest release is 0.20-r2. In case you want to use bootE Linux without modification, just download the binary image. If you want to modify it to better suit your needs, download the project tarball. | |||||||||
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| You can get the very latest version via CVS, but please note that as a bare minimum you'll have to compile the Linux kernel yourself before you can create the bootE floppy. If you are looking for an older version of bootE, try the complete list of files available for download. |
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| Eventually, someone will hopefully write something a little more detailed for this section. For now the following will have to do. |
| In order to use bootE Linux you have to transfer it to a floppy disk. If you are a Unix/Linux user, from a shell simply issue |
dd if=bootE-0.20-r2.img of=/dev/fd0. |
| If you are a Windows 95/98/Me user you can use the rawrite.exe program, which is readily available from the web. One location where you can grab it is http://www.tux.org/pub/dos/rawrite/. |
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bootE Linux is maintained by Kristen Pind and Morten Bern Comments, questions etc. to <bootE at everywhere dot dk>. |
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Updated Tue, November 25. 2008 - 16:28 <webmaster at everywhere dot dk> |
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