Mixmaster On A $20 Floppy?

[Mark M.]

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On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, tallpaul wrote:

> I've reports that the latest version of SyQuest's external parallel port
> EZ135 "floppy" drive is due on the shelves this month. Also reported is the
> ability to effectively boot off the thing, and thus run whatever OS resides
> on the SyQuest "floppy" rather than an OS that has to be on the host's hard
> drive partition. 
>  
> Weight, under two pounds. Price ~$US250. Capacity 135 Mb formatted. Price
> of spare disks: $US 20. 
> Take it off a computer. Put it in a briefcase. Carry it with you nicely out
> of public view. Hook it up to another machine and .... 
>  
> Question 1: Can you fit linux, pgp, mixmaster, etc. on the 135 Mb disk and
> have enough useful space left over for a useful amount of data? 
>  

I have PGP, mixmaster, and several other crypto programs as well as X,
Netscape, the entire Linux kernel, and several other huge programs and files
that I never even use on my Linux system, and all of that takes up ~137 Mb.
A base Linux system takes up between 10 and 80 Mb, so Linux would fit quite
nicely on one of these disks.



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